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- Subject: Re: IDEA for Serial Communications
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- To: "WILLIAM J. MILLER" <wjm@wwa.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 96 20:16 MST
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- >>>>> "Bill" == WILLIAM J MILLER <wjm@wwa.com> writes:
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- Bill> OK, all that is needed, is a program (could act like an
- Bill> extension), that wrote the data to a comm port. It doesn't
- Bill> need to be built into E/x, it could be emulated. The COM
- Bill> ports are always going to be at the same addresses. All
- Bill> ARDI (or someone) has to do is write a program that can run
- Bill> inside E/x and intercept the calls out to the COM ports, and
- Bill> rebroadcast them.
-
- No. Actually, all that is needed is a bunch of glue, *and* we've
- already written most of the glue. The problem is that we have to get
- E2 out so we can hire more engineers.
-
- Bill> I CANNOT write this, do to the fact, that I don't know
- Bill> C/C++, or have any clue as to Mac programming, or any Mac to
- Bill> do it on.
-
- Thanks for the suggestion, but serial port access is something we know
- how to do, we just can't delay E2 for it.
-
- Bill> Bill Miller wjm@wwa.com
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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