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Gang,
I've ordered a Turbo-Express card and will do some experiments with it
next week. If the baud rate multiplier that advertise works with the
Omega Server we very might well be able to operate it at 56K as we can
now with DS. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Should have some results
by the end of next week.
Ron
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Josslin [mailto:TaoOfDow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 11:01
To: Andy
Cc: Omega-List
Subject: Re: TurboExpress Card [Re: Sad days for data for TS4 traders]
Exactly. I bought my P3 a month or so ago, and it has a new Abit
state-of-the-art motherboard, having only one ISA slot, but some 5-6 PCI
slots.
I'd like to keep the ISA slot for a phone modem, in case my external
cable modem
breaks down.
Andy wrote:
> > I doubt that a PCI interface to a serial port would make any
difference
> over
> > an ISA serial port. A standard 8MHz ISA bus speed is plenty for
serial
> > communications. Even at 460800bps you're no where near maxing out
the
> > bandwidth.
>
> The point may be that some motherboards have only 1 ISA slot and that
may be
> taken up by another card. Most motherboards have either 1 or 2 ISA
slots and
> 4 or 5 PCI slots. So, I can understand the desire for a PCI serial
port if
> the ISA slot is already in use.
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