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From: charles@hpcvca.HP.COM (Charles Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Serial Ports
Message-ID: <5660017@hpcvca.HP.COM>
Date: 19 Sep 88 18:20:42 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
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> Serial ports?  That's not *nearly* as pressing a need as the 2090a!
> There already *is* a serial port on the machine, but there isn't alread
> an autobooting disk controller.
>    David Herron -- One of the MMDF guys                   

There IS an autobooting disk controller: the floppy.

I want to connect an X-10 home controller to my amiga.  The controller
talks to a serial port.  That should be a transparent background task.

When I am talking to another computer using the ONLY serial port, it
would not be acceptable for the X10 task to either interrupt my
session or to be interrupted by it.  One serial port is not adequate.
	Charles Brown		charles%hpcvca@hplabs.hp.com