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From: wille@frith.msu.edu (Jeffrey M. Wille)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Bridgeboard's most powerful feature unavailable to users?
Summary: How do I do Bridgeboard <-> Amiga communication?
Keywords: Bridgeboard, Janus.library
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.150953.3379@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Date: 13 Jun 91 15:09:53 GMT
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Organization: Michigan State University, College of Engineering
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Originator: wille@frith.egr.msu.edu

The introduction to "A2286/A2088 Bridgeboard User's Guide" states, 

   "One of the most powerful features of the Amiga/Bridgeboard
   design is the ability to run software tailored specifically 
   to take advantage of the combined strengths of the Amiga and 
   PC systems. For example, a hybrid A2286 system using 80286 
   and 80287 processors on the PC side could be performing process 
   monitoring while the 68XXX series processor on the Amiga side 
   is handling real-time graphics display of the process monitoring."  

That is exactly what I want to do, (and what I bought the bridgeboard
for) but nowhere in the manual does it give the documentation for 
using the Janus.library to pass information between bridgeboard and 
Amiga programs.  I've heard that the "A500/A2000 Technical Reference 
Manual" has some documentation for the Janus.library, but it is only 
available to developers.

I have a 16 channel data acquisition board and 3-axis motion controller
on the PC side, and I'd like to be able to send start/stop commands
to my motion controller program and receive data from my data 
acquisition program so that I can control and coordinate everything 
from the Amiga side with a spiffy control panel.

Can anyone give me a clue as to how I can do this?  I'd really appreciate
it. 
				-Jeff