[SunRescue] SparcStation Voyager Serial Port Strangeness

Kurt Mosiejczuk rescue at sunhelp.org
Mon May 21 14:18:04 CDT 2001


On Mon, 21 May 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On May 20, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > > The SLC is underpowered compared to an SS1.
> >
> > Actually the SLC is the same as a SS1+, CPU-wise.
>
>   You mean SS1, not 1+...the 1+ runs at 25MHz, the 1/SLC run at 20MHz.
>
>        -Dave McGuire

Ha!  You're both wrong! =)

Bill's more right than you though... the SLC is 25Mhz, but the framebuffer
in the SLC/ELC steals processor cycles to work... so you end up with the
SLC running about as fast as a SS1

--Kurt




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