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to: Steven Anderson
from: Hamish Moffatt
date: 1996-09-04 19:02:00
subject: 2 (or 3) Serial ports to one and ba

Hello Steven!

Sunday September 01 1996 07:16, Steven Anderson wrote to Hamish Moffatt:

 >  I was thinking of a 486SX25 or dx2/66 systems running a program that just
 > grabs incomming data from 3 serial ports and packets'em out 1 (and back at
 > other end.. ).. Id be using a Fossil Driver (Buffers :), Would this have
 > poor performance?  (Using PowerBasic, 57600 (and 115k2) Baud Rates for a
 > 28k8 or 33k6 Modem Link :).  I thought it would keep upto a modem
 > EASY?!?!..

It's possible, though I certainly would not recommend any BASIC compiler to do
it, assembler if at all possible. Should be possible on a lowend 386 in
assembler. Else C or Pascal should be acceptable.


Regards,
Hamish

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