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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Path: sparky!uunet!hfsi!ata
- From: ata@hfsi.uucp (John Ata FSO)
- Subject: Re: GVP multi-port card
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.202749.13630@hfsi.uucp>
- Reply-To: ata@hfsi.UUCP (John Ata FSO)
- Organization: HFSI, McLean VA.
- 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>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:27:49 GMT
- Lines: 28
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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
- Well, I can tell you that when I installed my 3C501 Ethernet board here
- at work on my 386, there was NO driver that came with it. They had a
- diagnostics disk though... Anyways, what do you do about COM 5-8? They
- aren't in the 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.
- Ever get a serial card with a 16550 and try to use its FIFO with standard
- software that doesn't know anything about it?
- >
-
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