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From: hah@inteloa.intel.com (Hans A. Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A-TALK III SUPPORTS MULTI-SERIAL CARDS (COMMERCIAL)
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Date: 21 Mar 89 21:35:41 GMT
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In article <16012@cup.portal.com> Doug_B_Erdely@cup.portal.com writes:
$Marco, give me a break. Yes, you can have upto 32 serial ports. just plug
$multiple boards in, they DO autoconfigure. Second, the price is $329.
$And third :> I saw the software running with my own two eyes! Much different
$than Amic BBS. Did anyone EVER actually see ANYTHING from them other than
$their term program? And are they still around?
$
$	- Doug -
$
$Doug_B_Erdely@Portal.Cup.Com

Unless the Multipul Serial boards use DMA the 68K overhead to service that
many ports using the hardware that I understand ASDG is using will bring
the system to a snail's pace.  Even the Cirrus Logic CL-CD180 that we
have designed into our board will be hard pressed to service that many
ports at anything over 2400 BAUD using a standard 7MHz 68K clock.

Hans