Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!cbmvax!andy
From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Serial port expansion
Message-ID: <3113@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 88 19:00:39 GMT
References: <197@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> <4918@well.UUCP> <22440@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <22440@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt) writes:
>In article <4918@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>>	I project that this would slow down internal device transactions
>>minimally...
>
>Or not at all.  Recall that OpenDevice() fills in the io_Device field with
>the device pointer.  After the open, calls would go directly to the 
>proper device.

What about the CloseDevice() ?
Seems like you'll need some additional magic then.

			andy
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