Re: Working ... but not quite

[John Sheahan <jrsheahan-at-optushome.com.au>]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 07:28:28AM -0400, robin szemeti wrote:
> 
> On Monday 16 September 2002 01:40, Ray Henry wrote:
> > Robin
> >
> > You will not get the same pulse rate from Linux and from Dos using the
> > same box.  Four KHz sounds good for a 150 machine.  Some report that they
> > can get about 15 KHz from 450+ machines with steppermod.  You will get
> > somewhat less with freqmod.
> 
> oh .. OK  .. better upgrade the box then .. base machines here are 1.7ghz 
> anyway now, so assuming it scales linearly then it should be OK.

perhaps if the parallel port(s) are PCI.
If they are ISA it won't scale much at all.
john