Date   : Tue, 20 Mar 1990 18:09:57 GMT
From   : sumax!amc-gw!sigma!flash!bill@beaver.cs.washington.edu (William Swan)
Subject: Need info on 5832 and 58321 clock chips

In article <558@fnx.UUCP> del@fnx.UUCP (Dag Erik Lindberg) writes:
}> If you are building your own hardware, the 5832 has very slow access 
}>time.  A 4 Mhz Z80 will probably not be relaible when reading/writing the
}>5832.  A slower processor (i.e. 2.5 Mhz) may work...
}Isn't this why wait states were invented? [...]

Yes, but the 5832 is S-l-o-w with a capital S. (My Alspa system uses one for
its clock/calendar.) If you wanty to do something else, like service a keyboard
interrupt, during that time you're out of luck. Better bet is to hang the thing
off a parallel port.


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