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- From: kehlet@kehlet.adsp.sub.org (Jesper Kehlet)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: GVP multi-port card
- Message-ID: <kehlet.05sq@kehlet.adsp.sub.org>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 14:13:44 GMT
- References: <1992Jul20.220100.22197@afterlife.ncsc.mil> <1992Jul16.150923.18622@cs.hut.fi> <rwm.711907616@atronx.OCUnix.On.Ca> <1992Jul27.044951.8006@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
- Organization: Compos Mentis Software Systems
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- X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
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- In article <1992Jul27.044951.8006@afterlife.ncsc.mil> bkwilli@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Bryan Williams) writes:
- > In response to:
- > >Article 5247 (46 more) in comp.sys.amiga.datacomm:
- > >From: rwm@atronx.OCUnix.On.Ca (Russell McOrmond)
- > > When you buy a PC card, you are getting just that - a CARD. When you buy an
- > >Amiga serial device solution, you get a serial board AND a driver.
- >
- >
- > Yes, that is true. BUT I think you jumped off the dock, over the boat, and into
- > the water on the other side. The nice thing about PC's is that they DON'T NEED
- > EXTRA SOFTWARE!!!! It is all supported through the COM1: thru COM4: bios
- > support, plug & play, basically. It isn't quite that simple, but it isn't
- > impossible to do either. -- ie, port jumper selection, IRQ, etc.
-
- Come on! The BIOS fossil drivers are NOT supporting serial comms properly.
- In fact, serial access is supported so badly, that you will HAVE TO write
- your own driver, if it is to work properly...
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- Jesper Kehlet, Compos Mentis Software Systems -- A Kind Of Magic
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