Obnoxious load-dependant bug in UUCP
Paul Campbell
paul at taniwha.UUCP
Sat Mar 16 08:47:42 AEST 1991
In article <1991Mar12.125557.433 at skbat.csc.ti.com> dittman at skbat.csc.ti.com (Eric Dittman) writes:
>
>Apple should allow HSKi/HSKo for hardware flow control and GPi for
>carrier detect. This would be the best compromise.
Except that just having an input for modem control doesn't do the job ... you
also need a modem control output so that modem hang-ups and answers work
correctly (for example so that DTR is dropped when a user logs out so that
the modem gets hung up ....). Ideally Apple should have GPi and GPo (as well
as HSKi and HSKo) which would make a total of 9 pins (gee - they could use a
DB9 :-).
Actually an even slightly smart chip engineer at Apple ought to be able to design
a serial port driver chip with the RXD+/TXD+ pins able to be reprogrammed as
the GPi/GPo pins when the port is being used as an RS232 port (since these pins
are unused on ports used for RS232).
Paul Campbell
Taniwha Systems
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