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From: rick@tmiuv0.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Dual Serial Boards
Message-ID: <1759@tmiuv0.uucp>
Date: 24 May 90 11:00:05 GMT
References: <2787@crash.cts.com>
Organization: Technology Marketing Inc., Irvine, CA
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In article <2787@crash.cts.com>, hawk@pnet01.cts.com (John Anderson) writes:
>    I just purchased the Sharp JX 100 color scanner (incredible results) and am
> now in the need for a dual serial board so my modem can simultaneously be
> hooked up at the same time.  I have heard of two of them, actually three.  The
> first two are all serial boards.  One is from ASDG and lists for $300 but can
> be had for less through ABel Supply, and the other is from Checkpoint
> technologies and lists for $200, and can also be had for less.  My question
> is: has anybody used any of these before and waht are the differences besides
> that the ASDG board comes with 2 AT size serial ports and the Checkpoint board
> comes with one full size and one AT size?

Well, I've not used the Checkpoint board.  I do have the ASDG Dual Serial
board and I like it a lot!  As for the price differential, I have no idea.

The DSB works at very high speeds, and ASDG did a nice job with their
utility programs.  The ASDG "serial.device" is nifty.  If you have a program
which opens it up, a requestor comes up and asks if you want to use the
standard Amiga serial port or one of the ASDG ports.  If you say you want an
ASDG port, it asks you which one.  Your application program never knows the
difference.  Their other device drivers (siosbx.device, etc.) work well, and
if you mount them via a mountlist, you can specify baud rate, character
size, stop bits, parity setting, etc. etc.

Nice job, Perry!
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