Re: TI-H: TI Modem


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Re: TI-H: TI Modem




Design a very simple protocol not based on TCP, or if on TCP, do it very
efficentally.


>Ok, so how could we get it to NOT drop packets?
>
>>From: Grant Stockly <gussie@stockly.com>
>>Reply-To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
>>To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
>>Subject: Re: TI-H: TI Modem
>>Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 09:35:32 -0800
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>>The etnernet chip already has a buffer.
>>
>>The calculator link port is just not clocked at 10MHz.
>> >OK, in other words we'd have to add a buffer external to the chip.
>> >
>> >
>> >> >It wouldn't have to go very fast at all.  Just provide telnet
>>services,
>> >> >finger, that sort of thing.
>> >> >How could this be implemented?
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> >>It would work...at 5k a second it might miss some packets.
>> >>
>> >>I didn't say it would be slow.  I said it would miss packets.
>> >>
>> >>if they were 1 4k packet a second, the calc would take ~.80 seconds a
>> >>packet.  There isn't too much of a buffer in ethernet chips.
>> >>
>> >
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