erd@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ethan R. Dicks) (11/28/87)
I am still waiting for my WEDGE (I sent off the order a week ago), and had a strange idea. If the WEDGE allows you to access an IBM PC/XT style I/O bus (which has a 8 bit device address), and you can have more than one controller on that bus at a time, why not add serial cards and the like? I would really like to have multiple serial lines on my machine (AUX:, serial printer, and modem). I know that there exist parallel to serial buffers for cheap, but that's not what I need. Another idea for the WEDGE is to build a Null-Bridge card to stick the XT bus in the Amiga 2000 into the same address space as the WEDGE on an Amiga 1000. This should be a simple card, but since my WEDGE has not arrived yet, I can't say for sure. In this vein, a question for Dave Allen (the nice man who told all of us here in Netland about the WEDGE)... will Reiter Software sell just a disk only? I am planning to take advantage of the 1000->2000 upgrade this time around and want to have a disk on my machine. I can build a WEDGE/Bridge, but would like to be above board and buy a copy of the driver ONLY, for license purposes. My fundimental concern in this project is cost. I realize that the WEDGE is not a fast as a 2090 disk controller, and neither does it have a SCSI port on it, but for other devices (Serial, Frame Grabber, and other nice cards), the hardware for the XT bus is available now (if at all) and cheap as DIRT. Discussion from hardware and device driver gurus is invited... -ethan -- Ethan R. Dicks | ###### This signifies that the poster is a member in 2433 N. Fourth St| ## good sitting of Inertia House: Bodies at rest. Columbus OH 43202| ## (614) 262-0461 | ###### "You get it, you're closer."