> > Believe me, after you've tried to use this card seriously you (a) wish
> > for a real serial card with a 6850 or 6551 on it and (b) want to do
> > unprintable things to the designers...
>
> The C-64 comes with 1200-baud bit-banging in ROM. That's why we did it
> that way. UARTS are much nicer (having later aquired a Super Serial Card),
> but not all micros had them.
I always found that one of the dumbest ideas Commodore came up with
(emulating the 6551 in software). It's not like it couldn't have been
built into the computer; the Plus/4 has a real live 6551 driving its
user port and it does fabulously well.
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Received on Thu Aug 24 2000 - 11:51:43 BST