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From: perry@madnix.UUCP (Perry Kivolowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Card Cages and extra serial port support for A500
Summary: Free Software...Nothing Is FREE!
Message-ID: <664@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 25 May 89 03:59:14 GMT
References: <2433@van-bc.UUCP>
Reply-To: perry@madnix.UUCP (Perry Kivolowitz)
Organization: ASDG Incorporated
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On Christmas day I sat down to write our serial driver. On New Years
day I had a driver which would mostly run most terminal programs. Mostly.
Enough, in fact, that I could have easily have fooled people at trade 
shows into believing we had a perfectly working and complete system.

Then the hard work started. Hundreds of special cases. Idiosyncracies.
Strange behaviours of the Amiga serial device which needed to be pinned
down so they could be emulated. Undocumented behaviours. Obscure
commands. Interactions. Stress cases, pathological cases. Writing
programs intended to show each and every one of these cases one at 
a time and prove that our driver sucessfully navigated them.

After five months of intensive work, our driver was finished.

Add to this three months of intensive work going on in parallel to
produce an effective multiple serial port solution for DOS and CLI
users.

You want my software for free? Right. You're typical of what's wrong
with the Amiga market. This ain't no damn 64. Grow up.


The person who said ``he with the best software will win'' is
right. We aim to win.




-- 
                        Perry Kivolowitz, ASDG Inc.
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