-------- In message <[email protected]>, Magnus Danielson writes:
>> This is a common misunderstanding: Talk-only does *not* protecting you >> against timing issues on GPIB. >> >> On RS-232, yes, but not on GPIB. > >Agree, to some degree. It's not a guarantee. > >I think you should develop that line of thought, to detail why it helps >on GPIB and why not on serial. It's really very simple: RS-232 sends blind, you don't even need to know if there is a receiver or what it does. If the receiver cannot keep op, data is simply lost. GPIB handshakes every byte, so the actions of the receiving end affects the transmitting end - in particular if the receiver cannot keep up. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
