[TRLog] USB and cards

[Tree N6TR]

>  My qaundry is that I'd like to add a second radio  (COM 5), and an Audio
> card. both of which need dedicated IRQ's if they are to operate ALL the
> time in parallel with the other ports without conflict. I could free up IRQ
> 15 but I'd rather not as this is the "backup hard drive" . And I guess I
> could put the printer and the Radio keying on the same LPT with a switch
> box as that is the one situation where in practice I never use both at the
> same time., that would free up IRQ 05. But if I can get the IRQ's freed up
> by moving  some of the COM traffic to the USB then that would be cleaner.
> My understandinng is that the USB is faster as well which would be good for
> some radio interfaces as some of the softeware I run does end up waiting on
> the polling process for traffic with the radio (all though delays that I
> see here may be due to the radio and not the BUS polling speed). 

TR doesn't care about IRQs - so you could add COM5 and COM6 and just
not hook up their IRQs.

Tree

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