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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Multiple Serial Ports (Re: vt100 v2.9)
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Date: 30 Dec 88 19:20:04 GMT
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In article <13054@cup.portal.com> Hurn@cup.portal.com (Edward Hurn Braswell) writes:
>Hmm..   I see some talk about implementing multiple serial ports
>(a multiple serial port DRIVER, by any other name, hopefully gets the job done
>
>But..  WILL such a hard-ware Creature appear on the market? (Accompanied by
>maybe a nice device.driver, and suitable patches for Comm terms (or a comm ter
>that will work with it?)

We are aware of at least 5 different manufacturers of A2000 cards that will
provide multiple serials ports (1, 2, 7, or 8 ports).  We have furnished all 
of them with beta versions of our software that supports such cards.  I would
assume that more than one of those cards will be released 1Q89.  All of the
cards will come with their own serial device driver.  As far as Comm programs
working with such cards are concerned, I can only speak for myself.  
A-Talk III does already support multiple serial UNITs in the current version 
(but you can't really use it until such cards are out :-)  A-Talk III 1.1
(due out end of January) also supports "alternate" device names, BOTH from 
CLI and Workbench.


-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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