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Re: IDEA for Serial Communications
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To: johnhess@cris.com (John Hess)
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Subject: Re: IDEA for Serial Communications
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From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford T. Matthews)
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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 96 05:43 MST
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Cc: "WILLIAM J. MILLER" <wjm@wwa.com>,
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In-reply-to: <199603140112.UAA20633@franklin-fddi.cris.com>
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References: <199603140112.UAA20633@franklin-fddi.cris.com>
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>>>>> "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
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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