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From: jgd@rsiatl.UUCP (John G. DeArmond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Comtrol - a very good smart asy card
Message-ID: <3882@rsiatl.UUCP>
Date: 5 Sep 90 04:18:23 GMT
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ed@maxed.amg.com (Ed Whittemore) writes:


>Yes, but it doesn't have full modem control on all the ports, and

I beg  your pardon, but all 8 ports on our cards have full modem
control including proper handling of DCD (must be a first for 
Interactive.)  If you don't have modem control on a port, perhaps
you forgot to run rtscts against that port?

>it doesn't work in a lot of 386s, like Nothgates with Motherboard
>Factory motherboards, or some Compaqs, ...

Works fine on the compaq deskpro 33 mhz machines at our site.  I can't
speak to second tier motherboards.

>Try the Specialix boards, they do, and they're cheaper.

Yes, they seem to have a nice product from the literature I've seen.  
However, they dropped the ball on our request for an evaluation board.
(hint, hint, prod, prod :-)

As to price, the VAR price is about the same for both products.

One other thing I forgot to mention about the Ultra board.  With a 
simple flip of a row of jumpers, the card will talk RS-422.  I can
think of several occasions when this would have come in very handy, 
such as when driving a printer 3 stories away from the computer.

John

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