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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AppleTalk, Networking, Amigas and Offices
Message-ID: <8804180638.AA23679@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 18 Apr 88 06:38:24 GMT
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:The author said that he can write the code but the amiga has no capability
:to send packets at high speed thru serial port...
:
:If you need an cheap, low-cost, auto-config, zorro,... board for your
:software, I CAN DO IT. I have currently two quiet terminated development
:and it's very easy to implement fast serial lines (specialized chips
:exists and doesn't cost a lot). 25 chips on a card, including auto-conf
:and buffering and for 200$ we can have an AppleTalk... And for A500
:thru A99999999 ;-).

	It's actually easier than that.  All you really need to do 
is get some open collector drivers (IEEE-488 style) and connect them to
the serial port.  Add a couple of resistors and Poof, ethernet style network.
With a custom serial driver you could go quite fast.  All that's left is to
write a protocol for it.  Unfortunetly, this is no mean feat.

				-Matt