Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!jade!eris!spencer From: spencer@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Randy Spencer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: One more modem Please! Keywords: Help me! Message-ID: <6327@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 18 Dec 87 00:34:13 GMT Sender: usenet@jade.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: spencer@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Randy Spencer) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 51 In article <4300@garfield.UUCP> joseph@garfield.UUCP (Joseph Dawson) writes: > > > > > > How can I hook up a second modem to my A1000? This is as good a time as any to start a new discussion on the net, so, if you were building a second serial port for the Amiga, would you: A: Rewrite the serial.device so that it supports you or the built in port. Address each as seperate unit numbers. B: Write a second serial device called something else and expect that programmers will allow users to open a named device, or mount the device as SER2: and use from the CLI. Then comes all the other questions: What do you do about preferences? Currently you can only open the onboard ports for the printer.device to talk to, how do you change that for good, so that you can hang a serial printer on the new port. How do you get software designers to acknowledge your board, in either of the above situations the software designer has to either allow the user to open the serial.device with a specific unit number, or has to allow you to open a named device (like I want to open the parallel.device and run a terminal program between two Amigas!). Or do we send the programmers to talk to Dos Devices and open SER2:? What do you do if you decide to just rewrite the serial.device, and then someone else builds their own board and they rewrite the serial.device also, the user is going to start getting confused. If there are any people out there working on serial boards and you want to be compatible in such situations, please get in contact with me here or on Bix I am known as Infinity, but I am never logged on there, as I can't use Emacs! *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Ok, that is where I was about two weeks ago, I have pondered these questions for some time, I have spoken with Bart@Amiga and Bryce@Hoser at length, and we have not answered all these questions. Is anyone interested in getting in on this? Anybody working on Telecommunications software? Tony of VT100 fame? Maybe the Max Elbowroom guys...? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Randy Spencer P.O. Box 4542 Berkeley CA 94704 (415)222-7595 spencer@mica.berkeley.edu I N F I N I T Y BBS: (415)222-9416 ..ucbvax!mica!spencer s o f t w a r e AAA-WH1M -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-