[Coco] Drivewire question

Willard Goosey goosey at virgo.sdc.org
Thu Mar 26 16:20:47 EDT 2009


On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 09:14:30PM -0500, Boisy Pitre wrote:

> There is a slight impact, but there's an interesting trade off. The  
> faster the data transmits, the less time interrupts stay masked, so at  
> 115,200bps, the typeahead buffer is very responsive.  

Humm, that makes sense.  I hadn't thought of it that way.  

I'm just used to the "bit-banger hogs CPU" idea, I guess.

Willard
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