Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!portal!atari!trh From: trh@atari.UUCP (T R Hall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Two New Computer Announcements - CeBIT Message-ID: <2889@atari.UUCP> Date: 2 Apr 91 18:53:34 GMT References: <2867@atari.UUCP>> <2885@atari.UUCP> <1991Mar31.095414.21978@actrix.gen.nz> Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 18 Alex.Valdez@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes: >In article <2885@atari.UUCP> trh@atari.UUCP (T R Hall) writes: >> As far as data transfer, both the Notebook and Pad versions of the >> machines will include file-transfer software in the ROMS, transfering >> over parallel-ports to other ST's, and serial ports to non-ATARI >> machines (hopefuly with an existing protocol, so Atari won't have to >> write [shudder!!] MS-DOS software). >I thought the ST's parallel port is output only. Surely one would >transfer data from the notebook/pad into a regular ST as well. >Alex Valdez Read what I just said: OTHER ST'S! i.e. "REGULAR" ST'S! That was the whole POINT. And YES the ST's port is bi-directional; we use it all the time internally to allow our debugger to talk to remote machines. TRH