[Coco] RS232 Pak needed

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 20 September 2013 09:33:11 Brian Blake did opine:

> 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.
> 
My vision is that as long as whats on the card acts like the 6551 when 
looked at through the 4 register addresses, then the roms from a deluxe-232 
pack should just work.
 
> Brian
> 
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