[Coco] Drivewire

[Bill Pierce]

Bill,
Drivewire runs at 115200 baud. It's virtual disk acces is much faster than a floppy dirve and maybe just a little faster than a read HD.

I think the problem with the 2 rs232 paks is that they both share the same address port. One would have to be configured (in hardware) to be at another port address. There is probably some problems there with interrupts as well.
Also, there is a mod to make an RS232 pak into a double rs232 in one pak (I think). If I remember correctly, Gene Hsket has done this mod... Gene?? Where are you... this is your realm.. :-P

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu>
To: The COCO Mailing List <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thu, Mar 28, 2013 1:45 pm
Subject: [Coco] Drivewire



Drivewire runs over the Bit Banger, right?  Just how painfully
slow is it?

And, to ask once again as I think this question got missed
earlier.  Has anyone come with a hack that allows more than
one RS232 Pack to be used?  I still have one slot free in
my MPI and more RS232 PAKs.  :-)  There is nothing I would
like better than to demonstrate a CoCo running with 4 people
using it at the same time.  :-)  Come to think of it, if I
could put more RS232 PAK's on I could always yank the Floppy
controller and run 3 RS232 PAKS, the Bit Banger and the Console.

bill


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