[Coco] RS DOS RS232 application?

[Brian Blake]

CoConet supported it via the 6551 in the paks Roger sold. I modified my
drivepak for it and the test rs232 pak I built.

Yeah, DriveWire used the bit banger - in my precoffee haze that one slipped
by.

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On Apr 15, 2016 7:39 AM, "Gene Heskett" <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

> On Friday 15 April 2016 07:28:17 Brian Blake wrote:
>
> > Both CoConet and Drivewire 4 had versions that supported 230k. Not
> > sure that what you're looking for, tho.
> >
> Apples v oranges. Bitbanger v 6551, and the 6551 needs more housekeeping.
>
> > On Apr 15, 2016 1:44 AM, "Gene Heskett" <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > > On Thursday 14 April 2016 22:42:10 Dave Philipsen wrote:
> > > > Have you compared the pshs/u puls/u instructions for moving data
> > > > quickly?
> > >
> > > No I haven't Dave. I did look at the cycle counts a long time ago,
> > > and ldq/stq were a fewer cycles less on the 6309 as it skipped the
> > > 2nd instruction fetch on the 6309.  And moved 4 bytes at a time, so
> > > I just used the 6809 equ that moved 2 bytes at a time if that is
> > > what its running on. For incoming or outgoing data thru a 6551, if a
> > > 4 byte fifo in hardware could be built that only its driver knew
> > > about, that would handily demolish the timeing requirement of
> > > clearing the 6551 read register before the next byte was clocked in.
> > >  Frameing errors would melt away till at least 2x the speed on a
> > > 6809.
> > >
> > > This is also a major roadblock to the use of rzsz at higher speeds
> > > because the current implementation is a one byte at a time monster.
> > > And it cannot deal at all with a data window bigger than 256 bytes.
> > > I should have been working on Tim K.'s code, which I think could
> > > handle the bigger block sizes.  Putting the table lookup cnc method
> > > into that should have resulted in at least a 2x speed improvement
> > > like it did for rzsz.  But we have better phone lines today, so its
> > > extreme error correction ability that results in the speed limit, is
> > > IMO wasted.
> > >
> > > > Dave
> > > >
> > > > On 4/14/2016 7:14 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > > On Thursday 14 April 2016 19:58:35 RETRO Innovations wrote:
> > > > >> I would like to test out a mod to my RS232 pak to bring it up
> > > > >> to 230kbps.  Is there a simple app around that has source so I
> > > > >> can modify it to do 230kbps on my rs232 pak and test?  Or,
> > > > >> alternatively, is there a simple terminal that I can run to
> > > > >> test out the various existing bps rates?
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Jim
> > > > >
> > > > > Unless you have huge buffers, big enough to contain the whole
> > > > > transmission, the coco cannot move more than about 90k a second.
> > > > > That corresponds to the megaread times I was able to get from
> > > > > myram, of 11 seconds for a megabyte on a 6309, and just over 13
> > > > > seconds on a 6809, each using the fastest way to move data that
> > > > > exists on those 2 processors. For the 6809, thats (after the
> > > > > transfer is setup) ldd,x++; std, y++, or for the 6309, ldq
> > > > > ,x++;stq ,y++ (IIRC).
> > > > >
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> > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> > >
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