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To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Watchdog timers (was: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards) 
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Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 12:37:29 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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> > Also, consider putting it on an IDE cable, it may be faster actually...
> 
> The 'basic' device is currently a small amount of shrapnel (245,541,688,74)
> the timer, a 555, a crystal and a relay. I don't intend to make this
> any fancier than it _really_ has to be.


That was exactly my point.  Most systems have an IDE i/f they don't
use.  If you put it there you have decode+buffers done already...

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