Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!nuchat!jeffn
From: jeffn@nuchat.UUCP (Jeff Noxon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Multiple serial port cards for Mac II?
Message-ID: <25643@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jul 90 05:04:21 GMT
References: <10511@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <42786@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: jeffn@nuchat.UUCP (Jeff Noxon)
Organization: Houston Public Access
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In article <42786@apple.Apple.COM> austing@Apple.COM (Glenn L. Austin) writes:
|mha@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder) writes:
|
|>I'm trying to find a NuBus card for the Mac II that offers multiple
|>serial ports.  It seems that SuperMac's Comm card no longer exists.
|>Is this true?
|
|The SuperMac Comm card is now available from Taniwha Systems in Berkeley.
|There is also the Creative Solutions dual- and four-port serial cards.
|
|>When you install a card to provide multiple serial ports, how does
|>the computer handle the extra ports?  Does it need to convince the
|>[Babbling deleted]
|
|It depends on the card.  If you want compatibility with future software,
|look for cards that support the Macintosh Communications Toolbox (both Taniwha
|and Creative Solutions support the CTB), and also provide driver-level support
|for software that is easily extended, such as MicroPhone II 3.0.
|Any software and hardware that supports the CTB will be the best over the long
|run, although the software developers are still working on CTB support...
|(as far as I know)
|

What about A/UX?  I have a terminal I would like to eventually connect to
an A/UX box.

Jeff



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