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From: pnelson@antares.UUCP (Phil Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Serial cards
Summary: Me too
Message-ID: <304@antares.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 88 21:15:21 GMT
References: <7858@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Reply-To: pnelson@antares.UUCP (Phil Nelson)
Organization: Tymnet QSATS, San Jose CA
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In article <7858@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> bennete@romana.cs.orst.edu (Erik J. Bennett) writes:
>Is anyone making serial cards for the Amiga?  I've seen none.  Why is
>that?  Is there something funny about the amiga that makes this difficult?
>
I have been waiting for a serial card for Amiga since 1985. I have heard talk,
but no more. The lack of extra serial ports has been, for me, the greatest
single disappointment with the Amiga, especially considering it's multi - 
tasking operating system. Commodore; I think you should be selling a comm
card, 2 ports would be nice, with standard device drivers which allow the
user to run multiple comm programs.

Please note - I am not advocating multi-user here, even without considering
multi user there are plenty of reasons for needing a 2nd (at least) port.
For example: suppose I want to run a midi device while doing a download?

I admit that the comm and music software will have to be improved also, but
how can they even begin without standard serial devices to talk to? I suppose
the market for comm cards is deemed to be too small. I want everyone to know,
there is at least one customer out here (me) ready to put down hard cash at
my local computer store for a serial card which I can use to run a 2nd comm
program on. 

>
>-Erik
>bennete@romana.cs.orst.edu


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