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From: pnelson@antares.UUCP (phil nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: BridgeBoard
Keywords: compatability, kermit, bridgeboard, jh0, janus
Message-ID: <132@antares.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 88 07:44:08 GMT
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In article <11793@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
|In article <65366@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
||In article <130@antares.UUCP> pnelson@antares.UUCP (phil nelson) writes:
... stuff removed about Kermit-MS not working and losing chars on com1 and
    floppy problems... (so I don't repeat myself too much :-)
|
||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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 I have used Procomm and two other comm programs, all on COM1:, I only have
problems when accessing JH0: while the transfer is taking place, except for
the recently released Kermit-MS version 2.31, which won't run at all (*BM
version) or says COM1: not ready (generic version). I looked through my
BridgeBoard(tm) user's guide again (you know, the little pamphlet), I didn't
see any mention of reserved interrupts. I still don't understand what's
going on, should I move the card to COM2:?

 The BridgeBoard(tm) is reasonably compatible for my purposes, I use it quite
a bit, but I certainly would think twice before buying any complicated
software (*nix for example) for it. Maybe the '286 will be more compatible.
Oh yeah-  where -is- that '286 Board ???

	-Philip Nelson


* BridgeBoard is a trademark of Commodore-Amiga
 (are all the attorneys happy?, OK, are SOME of the attorneys happy? :-)

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