[Coco] RS232 Pak needed

Brian Blake random.rodder at gmail.com
Fri Sep 20 08:22:01 EDT 2013


On 9/20/2013 8:08 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> By 10x or so easily. The current speed limit, using rzsz in nitros9, 
> running on a 6309 is just about 625 cps. That is because the hardware 
> flow controls in our current sacia based driver do not work. That 
> guarantees good data, but a better protocol thats 10x faster because 
> the hardware is better shouldn't be that hard to write. So the next 
> question is to the list in general. Assuming we do a 2 port version, 
> and we could offer it for $60 by the time we get gold flashed boards, 
> find out who made the cases Roger used, get some of those & modify 
> that one for a pair of db9's, how many of you folks would buy it in 
> the next year?
>
> Cheers, Gene

Gene,

Are we talking about something that would only be usable in 
NitrOS-9/OS-9 or would in maintain compatibility with RS-DOS as well? 
Either way, I'm in since as soon as  can get a handle on all this stuff 
buzzing around with NitrOS-9 I'm gonna be tackling that.


Brian



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