Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!pacbell.com!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!VM.TEMPLE.EDU!V2071A From: V2071A@VM.TEMPLE.EDU ("George A. Piotrowski Jr") Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Modem/Serial ports to 38.4k baud or > Message-ID: <9007042311.AA28829@apple.com> Date: 5 Jul 90 00:00:10 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 48 On 3 Jul 90 16:49:37 GMT you said: >mdavis@pro-sol.cts.com (Morgan Davis) writes... >> >> Most commercial IIGS terminal program (i.e. MouseTalk) bypass the serial port >> firmware altogether, with dramatic speed/performance improvements since they >> go directly to the 8530 SCC. >> >If the program goes directly to the 8530, can slot 2 be set up to be >"Your Card" instead of the modem port? I sure would like to move my Sider's >card out of slot 7, where it comes awfully close to my OctoRAM memory card. > >--Dave Tribby > - - - - - > ARPA: tribby%hpda@hplabs.HP.COM UUCP: hplabs!hpda!tribby Dave, If you use a program like Proterm, Yes you can set the slot to your card. I am not using it that way at work right now because I am using Proterm and GBBS.Pro, and GBBS needs Slot 2 set to modem port inorder to work. But before I was using GBBS, I had an Apple SCSI card in slot 2, with the setting for your card. I even had a switch box on the modem port to switch between the modem and an Appletalk box for printer to a LaserWriter. It all seemed to work ok except for the fact that when you boot to GSOS first, then go to Proterm, certain interrupts seem to be set that cause Proterm to garble data. (This is not to imply that it is the system causing the problem, but that Proterm is probably not handling the interrupts that are left active for printing on the network - Appletalk active.) Try it. But I would suggest that you make a backup of the HD first just in case there is a problem. As I said, with the Apple SCSI card, there were no problems. Also, it's nice to see Matt and Dave back on the net. I hope that the reason we haven't seen them much recently on the net is because they are working on many goodies for the Apple //s. Later, ________________________________________________________________________ George A. Piotrowski, Coordinator CREN/Bitnet: V2071A@TEMPLEVM Educational Computing Center Internet: v2071a@vm.temple.edu Temple University America Online: GaPio Philadelphia, PA 19122 Compu$erve: 74046,1304 (215) 787-6228 Genie: G.PIOTROWSKI Doc Brown: Obviously, the Time Continuum has be disrupted creating this New Temporal Event Sequence resulting in this Alternate Reality! ________________________________________________________________________ Acknowledge-To: