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From: steve@nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Multi-port serial card
Message-ID: <337@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Sep-87 16:24:43 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 28 16:24:43 1987
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References: <204@ivory.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <841@usfvax2.UUCP>
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Summary: another opinion on digiboard

In article <841@usfvax2.UUCP>, chips@usfvax2.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
> In article <204@ivory.SanDiego.NCR.COM>, Michael Lodman writes:
> >
> > I would like to have multiple serial ports on my Xenix PC. What are people 
> > using in the way of add in boards for such things?
> 
> 	3.  Digiboard.  We got the eight-port intelligent version.  It didn't
> 	    work -- `more' was broken!!!  I called them and they said `Yes,
> 	    the programmer(!) is working on that.'  How can you release a
> 	    Xenix peripheral that breaks `more'?!?!  Also, the only driver
> 	    was for SCO Xenix 2.2.   Not recommended.

I'm using an 8 port digiboard in my Microport box and I've been quite
pleased with it.  The stock kernel drives it with no trouble and it
is a very pretty looking board.  I don't know about the other boards
available now, but at the time I bought mine it was the only one I found
that supported full hardware handshaking on all lines.

I really don't know how they could have broken more - that's strange.

> Note that I speak only from _personal_ experience, and your milage may vary,
> etc.

ditto.
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