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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

2348.0. "ASDG Dual-Port Serial Board Available" by MTWAIN::MACDONALD (WA1OMM 7.093/145.05/223.58 AX.25) Fri Mar 10 1989 12:46

    ASDG has my check for $220. In case you haven't heard, they just
    introduced their new dual-port serial board for the Amiga 2000.
    It comes with a plug-in board containing two AT standard DB9
    connectors, and some PD and Shareware term programs that have been
    modified to allow port selection. ASDG is offering the board for
    $220 until the end of March. The price then soars to $295+.

    Throughput is roughly 80Kbaud. I'll have my TCP/IP Packet software
    running on one port, my modem on another, and perhaps some serial
    gadget on the third!
    
    Paul

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2348.1	Expanding product lines	TLE::RMEYERS	Randy Meyers	`Fri Mar 10 1989 18:00`	19
	Re: .0 Serial boards seem to be the next popular hardware addon. At AmiExpo, ASDG was showing off their product, and several manufactures were promising serial boards in the future. Commodore has a (4?) port board in the works that they developed because they felt that people would want to hang terminals off the Amiga Unix box. Their board will have some additional "smarts" to minimize load on the CPU. No telling when Commodore will release it. The folks that make the 14+ megahertz 68000 (not 68020) speed up daughter- board that plugs in the 68000 socket were handing out leaflets for a serial board. Their board comes with an AppleTalk connector, and a subset of AppleTalk software which allows Amigas and Macs or Amigas and Amigas to be networked. They claimed a delivery in "two or three" months. I think that someone else claimed to have a serial board under development. I think it was C Ltd, but I am not sure.
2348.2	Hmm... Could we rig it to...	ODIXIE::MCDONALD	Surly to bed, surly to rise...	`Sat Mar 18 1989 18:48`	9
	How's the software going to be able to distinguish which serial port you want to access? With a 'MODE' command like the IBM world? Maybe using assigns? PRT: => SER1:, MODEM: => SER2, etc. This would be a good place for some type of standard/architecture to be announced. Then again, maybe I'm just babbling again... <:-] John
2348.3	No good solution that I know of	BARDIC::RAVAN		`Mon Mar 20 1989 18:33`	12
	> How's the software going to be able to distinguish which serial > port you want to access? With a 'MODE' command like the IBM world? > Maybe using assigns? PRT: => SER1:, MODEM: => SER2, etc. > This would be a good place for some type of standard/architecture > to be announced. Then again, maybe I'm just babbling again... <:-] If I remember the Commodore USENET article that announced it, they recommended that the software offer a pulldown menu to allow selection of serial ports. Obviously this doesn't work for programs that don't Intuitionize well, and it's no solution at all if you would like a way to tell the OS "use serial port #2 for all serial I/O activity until I tell you otherwise".