[Coco] Drivewire question

[Willard Goosey]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 04:18:57PM -0700, Darren A wrote:
> In the case of DriveWire, interrupts are not used for the serial data
> transfers. All transactions are initiated at the request of the CoCo
> and interrupts are masked during these transactions. Using the same
> tecnique for a 6551 version of DriveWire would not require any
> increase in bandwidth over the bus since the serial port  I/O is not
> interleaved with I/O to any other device during a transaction.

Does that also apply to the OS-9 client?  If so, wouldn't that rather
hose multitasking?

The fscking hi-res mouse adaptor is bad enough, and the halting floppy
controller... :-(

(:Hi Gene.  Yes I know the serial mouse is the answer.  But that
wasn't the question. :-)

I'm ordering the parts to convert a modem pak into an rs-232 pak.

Willard
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