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- From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: Re: GVP multi-port card
- Message-ID: <62515@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 00:34:57 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Jul16.150923.18622@cs.hut.fi>
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- >From: Dan_E_Babcock@cup.portal.com
- >
- >I could port my 16550 driver to your board in an hour, but if you asked
- >my answer would be NO WAY. You insult the intelligence of Amiga developers.
- >Remember Checkpoint (I think that was the name), who tried a couple years
- >ago to market a low-cost serial board with good features? Where are they
- >now? Out of business, of course. Everyone bought ASDG's board (though it
- >wasn't as good) because the ASDG name was better known.
- >
- >
- >Dan
- >
-
- I think there may have been other important reasons too Dan. Back
- then (at least 2 years ago) there was much less need and requests for more
- serial ports. Today, seems like everyone wants more of them for one reason
- or another. Besides, the fact that ASDG was better known doesn't mean they
- have to charge that much. I have the CBM 7 port board for >$300 and am
- happy with what it does so far. I think a 1 or 2 port board should come in
- under $100, especially for a company, like GVP, who already has their
- manufacturing, advertising and distribution chains in place.
-
- -Joel
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