[Coco] Drivewire / Coconet ? Is a rs232 pack any faster thanthe bit banger?

[Little John]

The effective input clock rate of the deluxe rs-232 UART is 1.8432Mhz, but 
I'm not sure if that is what you were asking?

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From: "tim lindner" <tlindner at macmess.org>
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Subject: Re: [Coco] Drivewire / Coconet ? Is a rs232 pack any faster thanthe 
bit banger?


> Mark Ormond <markormond at mtxsystems.com> wrote:
>
>> Is a rs232 pack any faster than the bit banger?
>
> The RS232 Pak's UART has a fixed set of baud rates. Where the bitbanger
> port is under direct control of the CoCo's cpu.
>
> The UART can do: 50, 75, 109.92, 134.58, 150, 300, 600, 1200, 1800,
> 2400, 3600, 4800, 7200, 9600 and 19,200 bits per second. Also it has a
> special 16x external clock mode. Does any know what this comes out to be
> in the RS232 Pak?
>
> In a tight loop, the CoCo can run the bitbanger port at 115,200 bits per
> second.
>
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> tlindner at macmess.org                                              Bright
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