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Re: IDEA for Serial Communications



>>>>> "John" == John Hess <johnhess@cris.com> writes:

    John> At 09:10 PM 3/12/96, WILLIAM J. MILLER wrote:
    >> OK, all that is needed, is a program (could act like an
    >> extension), that wrote the data to a comm port.  It doesn't
    >> need to be built into E/x, it could be emulated.  The COM ports
    >> are always going to be at the same addresses.  All ARDI (or
    >> someone) has to do is write a program that can run inside E/x
    >> and intercept the calls out to the COM ports, and rebroadcast
    >> them.
    >> 
    >> I CANNOT write this, do to the fact, that I don't know C/C++,
    >> or have any clue as to Mac programming, or any Mac to do it on.
    >> 
    >> Bill Miller wjm@wwa.com
    >> 

    John> Far be it from me to attempt an oversimplification; but,
    John> would it help if one could use the FOSSIL as a (more or
    John> less) standardized communication interface?  Don't know how
    John> many platforms it will run on; but, I know it works on DOS,
    John> OS/2 and WIN(95).

It might.  We'll evaluate our options after E2 has shipped and use
what gives us the best performance for the least amount of work.

--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com