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From: perry@madnix.UUCP (Perry Kivolowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Serial Ports
Message-ID: <466@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 89 04:35:00 GMT
References: <1164@hub.ucsb.edu>
Reply-To: perry@madnix.UUCP (Perry Kivolowitz)
Organization: ASDG Incorporated
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I see. For years everyone complained about the absence of serial port
support on the Amiga.  Now that there is a shipping product providing
that support, everyone is complaining that it doesn't conform to some
projected but not yet introduced standard.

Well, what's a hardware vendor to do? :-)

I can respond to your points in two ways:

1. Of course we will supply driver software which will conform to the
   1.4 standards when 1.4 comes out (in oh, say, n years). Until then
   ASDG  can  provide  multiple serial  support that  works with your
   existing software. After that point, ASDG will provide the upgrade
   needed for conformity.
2. What makes you  think ASDG  is not involved in the actual creation
   of the new standards anyway?  And,  what  makes you think that our
   present support is not already compatible?

Amazing. If a message on Usenet from a CBM representative is enough to
sour a market,  there's  absolutely no  reason  for any third party to 
participate. 

I hope this point is well taken.

-- 
                        Perry Kivolowitz, ASDG Inc.
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