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From: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: A2090A
Message-ID: <4011@enea.se>
Date: 19 Oct 88 15:59:31 GMT
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In article <5007@cbmvax.UUCP> hedley@cbmvax.UUCP (Hedley Davis) writes:
-In article <12851@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
->
->For us still stuck with the non-autoboot A2090, I got the following 
->information from a local CBM representative that was present at a User
->Group meeting today. He stated that "A2090 owners will be able to have
->autoboot since CBM is planning to release a "daughterboard" that will include
->the autoboot ROMs and that will be socketed onto the A2090".  He did not 
->give any details on price and availability of such a daughterboard.
->So don't give away your 'old A2090 for an A2090A.  Any comment/denial/flame
->from CBM representatives is welcome :-)
->
->-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
-
-That's interesting. 
-
-Seems to me, the easier way to do this would be a little ROM only board
-with drivers that would look for the A2090. Such a board would take a
-whole expansion slot. Daughter boards are always nasty and you wouldm't
-want users attaching them anyway.
-
-This is, of course, entirely hypothetical. :-)
-
-Hedley

Wouldn't it be interesting for not to few people with a board with
auto-boot ROM's, an extra serial port and a parallell one and
perhaps some other niceties ? Is it any problem in AmigaDOS to have
a lot of serial and parallell ports ?

Perhaps a modem on above mentioned card ?