On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, der Mouse wrote:

> >> [Y]ou could overrun [an 11/730's] TTY input buffer to the point of
> >> pathetic beeping, just by typing random input quickly *by hand*.
> > Bet that was with a DZ-11 as well.  About the worst peripherial you
> > can imagine,
> 
> If you say that, you've never had to deal with the LP-11.  (It's a
> line-printer interface.)  It could accept only one byte at a time,
> required PIO, and had too little buffering (or too little speed at
> accepting bytes) to handle more than about two bytes per output-ready
> interrupt.

What makes you think the DZ-11 is any better? The LP-11 atleast is
uni-directional.

	Johnny

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