Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ncar!asuvax!hrc!gtephx!covertr From: covertr@gtephx.UUCP (Richard E. Covert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Double Click's New MultiPort card Summary: Penny Wise, Pound Foolish Keywords: double click, serial io, atari st The June/July issue of ST EXPRESS magazine has an ad from Double Message-ID: <44f290b1.14a1f@gtephx.UUCP> Date: 10 Aug 89 15:49:15 GMT References: <448e5c73.14a1f@gtephx.UUCP> <817@uhnix2.uh.edu> <189@swituc.UUCP> <24393@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Organization: AG Communication Systems, Phoenix, Arizona Lines: 38 In article <24393@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>, kclenden@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Kevin Clendenien) writes: > In article <44e3d740.14a1f@gtephx.UUCP> covertr@gtephx.UUCP (Richard E. Covert) writes: > [stuff deleted] > > I guess to summarize, I think that RTS/CTS should have been part of the > >basic design of DC PORT. I do not want to buy a DC PORT that was hacked up to > >support RTS/CTS. And DC SOFTWARE needs to provide system software drivers, which > way to provide you with a board that will do what you want, but are you > grateful? No, you would rather whine. It's no wonder there aren't more > people supporting the ST out there. I would like to thank DC Software > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Kevin B. Clendenien kclenden@silver.bacs.indiana.edu > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin said in his reply that I was 'whining' about a small defiency in DC PORT. But, my main point was that DC SOFTWARE was being penny wise but pound foolish by leaving out the hardware RTS/CTS. I don't know which UART they used but I am sure that adding RTS/CTS is mainly just a case of adding another RS-232 line driver and line receiver set of ICs. So, to save a couple pennies in their design DC SOFTWARE has eliminated abig market. There are a lot of USR 9600 modem users out there just begging for a working hardware RTS/CTS with working software drivers. So, if this is whining, so be it. I am simply pointing out to DC SOFTWARE, and anyone else out contemplating such a product, to test your market before finishing your design. Ask your potential customers for their desired features, and be willing to change once they see your product. The 'whining' thing brings up another complaint of mine. Why is it that ST owners should be satisfied with a less then perfect product, or with a product with known defiencies, just because a company was willing to market it to us in the first place? I mean, don't we desire the right to be critical of ST products, or should we simply bless any software or hardware product that a company is willing to market, just because they were nice enough to market it?? Awwggg!! Richard (the 'whiner') Covert