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Re: [time-nuts] RS 232

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Magnus Danielson
Wed, Jul 31, 2013 2:05 PM

On 26/07/13 15:06, Jim Lux wrote:

And, in some cases, moving the timing critical operations off to a
separate device is going to be the wisest plan. The Roland MPU401 Midi
box was one of the first to do this, back in the DOS days.

It was a pretty crappy CPU, but sufficient to do the task. Still got a
derivate board :)

Cheers,
Magnus

On 26/07/13 15:06, Jim Lux wrote: > And, in some cases, moving the timing critical operations off to a > separate device is going to be the wisest plan. The Roland MPU401 Midi > box was one of the first to do this, back in the DOS days. It was a pretty crappy CPU, but sufficient to do the task. Still got a derivate board :) Cheers, Magnus