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Re: [ECS] PD-40 Digal Inputs Wayne Wittenberg Fri, 15 Jan 1999 00:12:03 -0500

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At 07:38 PM 1/14/99 -0600, Bill Walters wrote:
>In working with my system, I've finally gotten around to using the
>digital inputs of the Prairie Digital 40 box.
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>My "normal" event pass per second is about 13.7 and after defining one
>single digital-input-f item, my pass per second count dropped to 3.

Moving some stuff last weekend, I temporarily disconnected my Model 40.
I noticed that my benchmark increased from about 8.4 passes/second to about
10.5 passes/second.  This is using ECST v4 on a 486/100.  This brought my
passes/second just about back to my 3.x speed, but didn't help the screen
switching speed.

Therefore, my Model 40 didn't have that big a speed hit, but as I recall,
when I added my Redac (before the Model 40) the speed change was tremendous!
If you don't have a Redac, then there might be this big a jump due to the
constant polling required of these devices.  Apparently adding your first
polled device takes a big hit, but adding a second one isn't that noticable?

c'ya,
Wayne

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