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Re: digital input at cassette port



jboothbee@gmail.com wrote:
Practically, they cannot be sensed faster than once every 4 cycles,
so that's the real bandwidth limiter.


limited by LDA?

how about with an accelerator?

That could speed it up to about 2 cycles per (unconditional) sample.

The LDA will run at accelerator speed (probably less than a cycle),
but then it will take the rest of a cycle to synchronize to the
bus and a full bus cycle to read the input.

-michael

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