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From: sutton@canopus.cis.ohio-state.edu (roy a sutton)
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Subject: Re: A Cost Effective MULTI-SERIAL Device Proposition
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Date: 7 Feb 90 21:58:24 GMT
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In article <90037.161429NETOPRBH@NCSUVM.BITNET> you write:
>
>In short, you might be able to do it, but you would be better off hanging a
>uart off of the parallel port to get an extra serial port.  And you would be
>able to run at measurable speeds using a uart too :-)
>
>                                                         BlH

Thank you for your informative responce.  I realy am not a level of schooling
or Amiga hardware experience to completely understand what this would involve. 
I guess my scope only looks at the surface of the actual problem and is driven by 
my burning desire for college budget serial port.

How feasible would it be to build hardware to use the parallel port?  Could it
be eligantly designed to allow other devices to use it when need?

What about a hardware device to multiplex the existing serial port and uses
the second joystick port for control switching?

And finally... What about a SCSI hardware device?  Shouldn't there be protocal
provisions for this type I/O in the SCSI "standard."

Ok, I will try anything that works resonably if it can be had cheaply.