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From: izot@f171.n221.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Zmodem implementations
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Date: 16 Mar 89 15:14:13 GMT
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 > From: eravin@dasys1.UUCP (Ed Ravin)
 > Message-ID: <9012@dasys1.UUCP>
 
 > Otherwise, the Buscard II was just wonderful, thought it wasn't quite as
 > fast as the IEEE-488 interface that MSD provided.  The MSD interface had
 > other problems, though, including needing a SYS call to be activated (yuk)
 > and taking up 2k or so of memory away from BASIC (big YUK, since our BBS
 > program needs all the memory it can get and then some).
 
   I quote Steve Douglas, the author of the BusCard II firmware: "The BusCard 
was designed for *compatibility*, not *speed*".
 
   Geoff ( watmath!isishq!izot )
 


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