Dave-Yost@sri-unix (06/11/82)
In addition to the silo high water mark interrupt, these turkeys should have a settable timeout, so that if there is input that hasn't been read for, say, a 15th of a second, an interrupt is generated even if the silo is below high water mark. Making the OS poll whether or not there is data to be read is so stupid as to not be believed. Anyone know of a unibus mux that has this builtin timeout? While I'm on the subject, if someone wants to build a better mux, output should be PIO with 1K bytes of buffer per channel, and there should be commands to stop, continue, and flush output, and there should be hardware ^S/^Q output flow control enabled by software. Are you listening Ken O.? -- dave yost
mo@LBL-UNIX@sri-unix (07/29/82)
Date: 27 Jun 1982 11:52:05-PDT Dave, If you really want a better Mux built, take your list of wants to Ken Omohundron at ABLE. He comes the closest to being interested of any hardware maker I know. -Mike