[comp.sys.amiga] More Discussion On New Serial Board

perry@madnix.UUCP (Perry Kivolowitz) (02/25/89)

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>Subject: Re: New Serial Port Board (Less Expensive)
>
>Great!  When and how should I submit an order so that I also get
>the NYAmiExpo deal?  Perhaps this would be of general enough interest
>to post to the net.  If you like, include this message as a indication
>of a direct request to post.  (Ward off silly flamers. :-)
>
>Jim Wright
>jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu

We will provide the same offer to the general public which cannot attend
the New York show. That is, we'll provide the new dual serial port board
for a price of $220  including shipping (in the u.s.) to all persons who
order between now and the start of shipping (the third week of April).

After that, the board will be available through your local dealer.

Subject: PD and Shareware Software On Our Disk...

At this point we have firm plans to provide a new multiport version of
WHAP, the Compuserve reader. We will also provide ``termx'' which is a
relatively unknown comm program which happens to have the fastest file
transfer capability that we've ever tested (over 48KBaud throughput on
a 56KB line). 

We encourage the authors of  other  PD  and Shareware comm programs to
put in the  multiserial  capability in their programs. This amounts to
no more than providing a way for the user to specify a device and unit
number to your OpenDevice call.

Our goal in putting such software on our disk is to provide applications
which the consumer  can  use when he/she takes our equipment home. It is
NOT our intent to discourage the purchase  of  commercial  comm software
or to endorse the use  of  any particular package over another. 

-- 
                        Perry Kivolowitz, ASDG Inc.
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