Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!sgi!shinobu!odin!sgi.com!scotth From: scotth@corp.sgi.com (Scott Henry) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: A Cost Effective MULTI-SERIAL Device Proposition Message-ID: Date: 9 Feb 90 19:41:43 GMT References: <76649@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <15996@well.UUCP> <5194@convex.convex.com> <16037@well.sf.ca.us> Sender: news@odin.SGI.COM Reply-To: scotth@sgi.com (Scott Henry) Distribution: usa, world Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc, Mountain View, CA Lines: 11 In-reply-to: farren@well.sf.ca.us's message of 8 Feb 90 10:25:45 GMT Hmmm... I can think of a couple of uses for a low-speed (1200bps) output only serial port. Like my crufty old 80cps Epson MX-80 printer (if I had another use for the parallel port), or one of those serial-interfaced X10 controllers, etc. Why waste a high speed port on a slow peripheral? -- Scott Henry | These are my | Tardis Express -- when it Information Services, | Opinions only!| absolutely, positively Silicon Graphics, Inc | Whose else? | has to be there -- yesterday.