Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!swrinde!kent
From: kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 2500UX and Multiple serial ports
Message-ID: <24281@swrinde.nde.swri.edu>
Date: 28 Nov 89 18:31:22 GMT
References: <10004.AA10004@heimat>
Reply-To: kent@swrinde.UUCP (Kent D. Polk)
Organization: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas
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re: the ASGD Multiple serial port card

In article <10004.AA10004@heimat> sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein) writes:
>
>  I spoke with Perry about this a few weeks back. He said that currently
>  ASDG has no Amix driver (or 2500UX), but they do want to write one. He
>  felt the hardware would work but had no real idea when a driver would
>  be available.

I sure wish you guys would leave ASDG alone long enough for them to
write a useable library for their GPIB card. :^)

Perry said he was going to try & do some work on it this fall and I'm
afraid he's gonna want to work on these more lucrative/interesting
projects instead of getting my GPIB library up to speed. So buzz off
for now! I'll tell you when he's finished and then you can start him up
again.

I've been limping along for 4 months now on some cludges I put together
to talk to GPIB instrumentation. I can't figure out how to service
interrupts correctly inside a library, much less handle timeouts, so
I'm still polling the byte in/out registers. Really takes over the
machine when you are talking to a slow GPIB device.

Any hints on interrupts/timers inside a library would be appreciated.

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