[Coco] What do people want?

[Brett Gordon]

Yup, I'm with Aaron and David on this one.  A real-life high speed
becker port, flash ROM, and maybe some nvram for storing settings
would be my christmas wish.   Drivewire has some under-utilized
coolness going on ( which I'm working on supporting in my new DECB
replacement )


On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe the rs232 pak can be pushed to 38,400bps at least in some cases,
> but that's still quite a bit slower than we run the bitbanger at (up to
> 230,000bps).  Also, within that channel we support up to 15 terminals and
> 15 remote windows (multiplexed with simple traffic shaping).  I think that
> kind of thing would be quite limited if speed was reduced to 38.4k.
> Probably tolerable for use as a file source for DECB though.. Most basic
> programs are quite small.
> On Dec 12, 2014 10:41 PM, "Bill Nobel" <b_nobel at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I think you might be right. A true rs232 would be best, but bit banger
>> does work. On rs232 we got 9600 baud when Curtis and I did multi host
>> shells.
>>
>> Bill Nobel
>>
>> > On Dec 12, 2014, at 5:17 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Dec 12, 2014, at 2:46 PM, Robert Hermanek <rhermanek at centurytel.net>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I can only think of one little thing:  A drivewire version of HDB-DOS
>> that expects the drivewire connection on an rs-232 pak, instead of internal
>> serial port.
>> >
>> > Sounds like a DriveWire hardware pak might be useful, then. But wasn't
>> it that the hardware rs232 couldn't go as fast as the bitbanger serial
>> port? Perhaps a new rs232 chipset that could go faster...
>> >
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