2 Aug
2004
2 Aug
'04
5:07 p.m.
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Fred Cisin wrote:
But, admittedly, if you tried to do serial I/O using
the BIOS
routines, then you might very well be limited to not much over
300 baud.
Correct, that is why we all wrote and/or installed our own handlers
that did dual-ring buffering, better handshaking and, if needed,
custom line speeds and/or protocols.
Joe Campbell's "C Programmer's Guide to
Serial Communications"
has plenty of good info, although he and I didn't completely
agree about his level of "data hiding".
Oo, the "Blue Book".
Good info, but, indeed, his Virtual UART
stuff kinda sucked.
--f