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From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: vt100 v2.9
Message-ID: <3102@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 16 Dec 88 03:25:55 GMT
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Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <14049@oberon.USC.EDU>, papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
about a terminal program that lets you specify the unit number for the
serial device, but not the driver.

> So harware guys, when are we going to get multiple serial devices?
> The software is ready.

No it's NOT. "serial.device" doesn't support more than one UNIT. Another
manufacturer will have to call their driver "rs232.device" or "myserial.device"
or something like that.

Anything they do to make "serial.device" accept multiple unit numbers (map
their memory in to some magic place, for example, or patch serial.device
to their code) is going to be (as I mentioned) a horrible kludge.
-- 
		    Peter da Silva  `-_-'  peter@sugar.uu.net
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