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- From: bkwilli@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Bryan Williams)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: GVP multi-port card
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.032207.8773@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 03:22:07 GMT
- References: <62418@cup.portal.com> <1992Jul20.223156.22962@afterlife.ncsc.mil> <62493@cup.portal.com>
- Organization: The Great Beyond
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- Gee whiz, Dan, you've got some ego! I guess paying the CATS developer fee boosts
- your IQ instantly or something! Geez, I wasn't trying to start a war.
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- You ever think that MAYBE the reason the serial card didn't take off at first
- is because virtually no one had greater than 2400 bps modems, and the null-modem
- users generally used polled-io programs that don't care about interrupt latency
- and 68030 exception frames and all that jazz.
-
- Hmm. Gee, Dan, I >>THINK<< the wide proliferation of v.32 and v.32bis modems
- has changed the world in the last YEAR or so.
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- Regarding ASDG's products--- do they still use the Twin-X twin-tower iSBX module
- design? Like the GPIB-IEEE 488 interface. Or are they offering a serial-only
- version?
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- My opinion of ASDG's hardware skills is pretty bad. The IEEE-488 interface is
- a worthless piece of rubbish because the commie bastards didn't bother making
- decent software for it. I had to debug the library routines with a logic
- analyzer to verify they didn't work & harrass the guys about it. I finally
- DID get it to work. By doing something stupid & unnecessary if the hardware
- worked right. I can't even remember exactly what I did to make it work, but
- it was my own skill that made it work, not any help of ASDG. And the damn card
- took up 2 slots because of the towers.....
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- Maybe those developers should rethink their marketing plans. Of course, I
- realize Commodore-Amiga is shooting us all in the feet thinking about
- running multi-user BBS's on the Amiga simply because you can do it much cheaper on a PC...... and it doesn't make a difference to do so....
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