Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!njin!princeton!njsmu!telesci!fantasci!jep From: jep@fantasci.UUCP (Joseph E Poplawski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Quantum Link - telecommunication at it's poorest Message-ID: <346@fantasci.UUCP> Date: 18 Dec 88 08:48:40 GMT References: Reply-To: jep@fantasci.UUCP (Joseph E Poplawski) Organization: Fantasci Incorporated Lines: 25 In article prindle@NADC.ARPA (Frank Prindle) writes: > >Now, as both an Electrical Engineer, and a Software Engineer with considerable >C64/C128 hardware and software experience, I can assure you that there is >absolutely no reasonable explanation why C64 telecommunications software would >ever require removal of peripherals,especially since none of the aforementioned >peripherals utilize the same port as the modem, none generate interrupts >to the system when quiescent, and none modify or override the internal C64/C128 >kernal ROMs. I have several pieces of software (non-communication) for my C=64 that require NO peripherals attached. Only 1 drive, period. I didn't find this out until I called the one company three or four times (Electronic Arts I think, or was it the authors of Paperback Writer?). If the company knows the peripheral will have to be unhooked, then why don't they fix the problem? -Jo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Joseph E Poplawski (Jo) US Mail: 1621 Jackson Street | | Cinnaminson NJ 08077 | | UUCP:..!rutgers!rochester!moscom!telesci!fantasci!jep | | ..!princeton!telesci!fantasci!jep | | ..!pyrnj!telesci!fantasci!jep Phone: +1 609 786-8099 home | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------