[HECnet] Which is THE dec printer?

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Wed Jan 15 15:38:30 PST 2014


On 01/15/2014 06:35 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
A lot of people (myself included) insisted on direct-in-the-bus
printer controllers when we saw how badly serial printers tanked the
system when we connected them to DZ11s. ;)

Oh I can imagine that.   A dedicated controller would have MUCH higher
bandwidth than the <1.5mbitcapable on the DZ11. ;)

  It's the interrupt load that's the problem.   It could TANK an 11/750.

                        -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA



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