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From: a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Has anyone run PCAD on a Bridgeboard A2000 combo?
Message-ID: <3120@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 9 Sep 90 21:17:31 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In article <8425@ncar.ucar.edu> hull@hao.ucar.edu (Howard Hull) writes:

>Perhaps the Bridge can get me out of this mess...  I hear PCAD uses a dongle,
>and it goes on "the IBM serial port".  I don't know if that means the COMM1
>port or the COMM2 port.  From what I've heard, if it's COMM2, I'm already
dead,
>as the Bridge somehow uses that to talk to the Amiga side of things - is this
>True/False?  Thanks in advance for any information on PCAD on the Amiga!

     False!  I dropped a multi-I/O card (two serial ports, one parallel
port, and one game port) into one of my bridge board slots (it nicely
filled the half-slot left by the 30-megabyte RLL hard card that I got
for the A2286's exclusive use).  It works just fine as COM1:, COM2:,
and LPT2: (LPT1: is the Amiga's parallel port, and as for the game
port, who cares? :-).  I do MS-DOS software development on my bridge
board :-( but it pays for my Amigas :-).

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP
Intel puts the "backward" in "backward compatible."