In article <1992Jul19.072155.6069@afterlife.ncsc.mil> bkwilli@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Bryan Williams) writes:
>I'd certainly venture to guess it'll do anything existing Amiga ports will do,
>with the driver compatibility constraints in some cases, looking specifically at
>the CIA chips rather than the driver, etc.
>
>
>Since you brought up the subject of GVP's new card, I'd like to GRIPE.
>
>The MSRP of the board is $299!!!!!!!!
>
>WHY in the HELL do these things cost so much? Please, no bullshit answers. I've
>been looking into producing a serial board myself, and I KNOW how much it could be done for. If it were not for the lack of a PAL programmer to make the
>autoconfig PAL, I'd be finished already! And I could sell for under $100, a card
>with 4 serial ports (no parallel intended at present since I see less use for it
>-- ie, there aren't any digitizes that will work with custom boards' parallel
>ports that I am aware of)
>
>When & if I finally do get money for a "development system", look for the
>
>do it yourself kit. Or, take it upon yourself to beat me to it. Just price it
>below $100!!
>
>By the way, a company called Startech makes a 68000-compatible quad FIFO UART
>called the ST68C554. 4 ports, each with 16 bytes send and 16 bytes receive FIFO
>(GVP's board has similar UARTs, unlike all the other cards). Free samples avail-
>able, and the distributor cost is about $22 per chip if you wanna get large
>qty's.
>
>If you are familiar with the 16550 UARTS, these are basically the same thing. T
>are register compatible.
Well, Intel's Advanced Serial card cost about $180.00 at Comp USA, so that
MSRP doesn't sound too bad to me...(Yes, I know the feeling: how can one
justify cash like that for a serial card, but they are priced by some
manufacturers rather high. I guess you pay for the quality)