dylan@cs.washington.edu (Dylan McNamee) (01/24/90)
With the educational systems bundling Bridgecards (AT for 2000HD and 2500/30), it seems that there will be many new uses for these boards that don't necessarily use their "PC'ness". Multiprocessing is one example, but a more immediate need that it could fulfill would be to use it as an I/O processor, along with one or two of the ridiculously cheap (~$50 for 2 serial, 1 parallel, 1 game port.) multi-port cards for the PC bus. My question: would it be fairly simple to write an pcbus.serial.device that would send serial port activity to the PC side to be processed? This would allow 4 serial ports to be connected at low cost, with the added benefit of not tying the 68000 bus up all the time. Along a similar vein, what are the multiprocessing support utilities Commodore mentions that come with the Bridgecards? Are they easy to use, fast, flexible, etc.? (or---vaporware?) dylan dylan@cs.washington.edu