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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: BridgeBoard
Keywords: compatability, kermit, bridgeboard, jh0, janus
Message-ID: <11793@oberon.USC.EDU>
Date: 23 Aug 88 22:37:18 GMT
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In article <65366@sun.uucp| cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
|In article <130@antares.UUCP| pnelson@antares.UUCP (phil nelson) writes:
|-|   I tried the latest release of Kermit for M*-DOS on my BridgeBoard(tm),
|-| no dice, it didn't like the com port. (something about the com3
|-| interrupt?).  Also, I still can't use my jh0: concurrently with any
|-| BridgeBoard(tm) - side program that uses either the com1 port or the
|-| floppy. When any Amiga-DOS(tm) program accesses the jh0:, I either lose
|-| chars on com1, or lose the floppy transfer (you know - Abort, Retry,
|-| Ignore, Get a real OS? :-). Was this problem ever identified as a bug?
|-| I finally gave up trying to get an answer (I didn't know how to run
|-| usenet at the time, the phone calls and time were excessive).

|The bridge board uses the COM1: interrupt to communicate between the
|Amiga side and the MS-DOS side. This makes the following statement something
|of an absolute : "COM1 is reserved on the bridgeboard, you cannot use it
|for anything." I know, it isn't pretty but hey, XT`s just don't have very
|many interrupts that one can use. 

I am puzzled. I have been using a serial card installed in one of the PC slots
of the BridgeCard, set up as COM1:, and I haven't had any problems running 
Kermit or ProComm.  Are we talking about using the "amiga" serial port or
a pc-serial card?  It is well known that the "amiga" serial port is not
supported from the IBM side (though, the paraller port is).  Maybe I was 
dreaming?


-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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