Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga as workstation
Message-ID: <1903@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 29 Apr 88 22:58:17 GMT
References: <466@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> <863@gethen.UUCP> <391@brambo.UUCP> <40824UH2@PSUVM>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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In article <40824UH2@PSUVM>, UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes:
> Now, in a local environment, with an ethernet board in the Amiga, it
> could (I guess) do this.  But being limited to one serial port is a problem.

Yes, the one-serial-port situation is bogus. This is one place I think
Autoconfig is a botch... a serial port is something that'd be a $50 card
if it was as easy to add it to Amy as to an Apple II.

Personally I'd be happy to give up my parallel port for another serial port.
Parallel printers are a historical dreg that has no technical justification.
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