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From: Winfried.Krueger@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Winfried Krueger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Amiga 4000 is HERE :)
Date: 15 Oct 92 07:04:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: arbi.1992Oct15.070929.19416
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany

Holger.Lubitz@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Holger Lubitz) writes:

[...]

>Since I had only borrowed the VGA monitor (for the rare 
>occasions where you _need_ color, 

like Pinball Dreams =8-), or

>like software that does not allow
>you to choose a palette, yet does not come with a palette suited for
>the 2024), I gave it back and continued to use the 2024 only.

>In the meantime, I sold the 3000 and got a 4000, as you already
>know :)

and have seen...

>Holger

winnie.
From: TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A4000 graphics
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 15:46:05 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Oct12.095359.15985@ifi.uio.no> <1bcpk7INNdis@uwm.edu>
  <1992Oct13.103402.25438@ifi.uio.no>

>> Methinks you've had too much wacky-weed.  DblPAL and DblNTSC both have
>> overscan capabilities.  AGA will do everything that the Amber chip did
>> and MORE.  Amber could only handle 12-bit color information, and AGA
>> will handle 24.
>
>You don't get full overscan in DblPal/Ntsc.
>

Heck, that's why my monitor has those funny controls on the front. All of
the sudden, instant "full overscan".

Besides, the AGA machine will probably play Simearth faster than any other
Amiga, and that's good enough for me.

TomK@cup.portal.com
Tom Krotchko
From: huebner@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Robert Huebner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Reading AMIGA floppies on a SUN
Date: 14 Oct 92 02:09:43 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Purdue University


>In article <1992Oct7.111341.15281@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> s2j@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>>  Do there exist any programs for reading and writing AMIGA floppies on
>>a SUN? (sparcstation w/ 4.1.1)  Please resond by e-mail.  Thanks in advance
>>-Chris B.
>>yqdx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu

I don't mean to sound dense, but why not just use CrossDos (or get the new
WB2.1) and use the MSDos format?  Aside from loosing some of the storage
capacity, its pretty much transparent.  Especially under 2.1/3.0, just 
reference PC0: in place of DF0: and you're off.  Using fdformat -d on
the Sun you're just making MSDos disks.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: kervel@cs.utwente.nl (Rinie Kervel)
Subject: Amiga 1084 monitor
Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 21:06:01 GMT

Hi there,

Does anyone out there know whether there is a possibility to 'upgrade'
my 1084 monitor to a (s)VGA Monitor. Perhaps it is already a VGA mon.
in disguise??? (Or just a color tv without a tuner)

Cheers

Chera 

E-mail: bekker@eltn.utwente.nl
From: loomis@stein.u.washington.edu (Elaine Loomis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Is it silly to buy a
Date: 12 Oct 92 19:16:44 GMT
Organization: University of Washington

dmacphee@nyx.cs.du.edu (Don mac phee) writes:

> People were SCREAMING for rush, and now you chastise C= for doing it.
>Shame on you people. (Blame Marketing. I'd have C= set up a 2400 baud
>800 BBS in each office (Foreign and domestic) have ALL users of Amigas
>call up and let C= know WHERE those 3.5 million Amigas are, then send
>out a mass SASE mailing to ASK the world what it wants out of Amiga.
>Put ads in Byte, PC Computing, Amiga World, Amiga Format, Amazing, asking
>them to register. Then act on what you find.

WHAT a good idea! C=, are you listening?

						EL
From: snowdond@cs.man.ac.uk (Dave Snowdon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: composite video on the A600?
Date: 14 Oct 92 10:18:54 GMT
Organization: Dept Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K.

Does anyone know whether Commodore kept the composite video output on the
A600? I have an old composite video monitor that used to work with an A500
and would like to know whether it would work with an A600.
			cheers
				Dave

-- 
Dave Snowdon
Department of Computer Science   Tel:    (UK) 061 275 5717
Manchester University            E-mail: snowdond@cs.man.ac.uk
M13 9PL U.K.                          or snowdond@uk.ac.man.cs

  The Devil may care... But I don't mind (T.S.o.M.)
From: johnl@SDFSERV.hac.com (John Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: CDTV to Amiga Via SCSI?? was :Can you connect 2 Amigas via
Date: 15 Oct 92 22:04:14 GMT
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Company, El Segundo, CA

In article <67720@cup.portal.com> FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois) writes:
[...]
>Here's a possible product for some sharpie to design:
>
>a 'shared' drive.  It would be a 'standard' drive mechanism of modest size.
>Maybe 50-100 Meg.  It would have two SCSI connector sets (one for each
>computer bus).  It would have some means of locking out one bus while a
>file is open for writing from the other bus.  This would guarentee that
>the file system is not munged by multiple write accesses to the same file
>by two computers.
[...]

Actually, I believe the SCSI protocol already has two commands to handle
exclusive access.  I don't recall the exact names of the commands, but a
unit can be reserved for exclusive access by an originator and the unit
will refuse commands from a different originator.  When the reserving
originator is done, it can release the unit for shared access again.

Judicial use of these commands would implement a unit-level mutual
exclusion mechanism.  It could be used to implement file-level or even
record-level mutual exclusion.

As to which drives actually implement this feature, I don't know.  I don't
recall if it was a mandatory SCSI command.  I do know that the A3070
(Caliper CS150) tape drive does.  I was browsing through the technical
manual last week (no, not for pleasure.)

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The crew faces deadly GURUs!  Next time on AmigaDOS: The Next Generation.
	+--------+			John Lee
	| HUGHES |
	+--------+			Internet: jhlee@hac2arpa.hac.com	
The above opinions are those of the user and not of those of this machine.
From: 5marte_f@spcvxb.spc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Amigas For SAle:Help Me
Date: 15 Oct 92 19:53:42 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
X-From: 5marte_f@spcvxb.spc.edu
X-Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
X-Date: 15 Oct 92 15:52:39 EDT
X-Organization: St. Peter's College, US

Help PLEASE!!!

	I need to sell two Amiga Computers. Both are worth the asking prices. 
One is an A2000, the other an A500


		****** AMIGA 2000 ******

	A2000 w/ 1.3 & 2.0 
	Amiga 1084S (stereo) Monitor
	1 Meg. Agnus.
	Keyboard w/ safeskin
	8 megs of ram on expansion board (yes all 8)
	Supra Wordsync(fast) Series 3 HD controller
	49 Meg HD. Full of stuff.
	Mouse Master Joystick/Mouse switch.
	Wico Joystick(s)
	Mouse
	Epson LX-80 (w/ tractor)
	Tons (really!!) of disks
	Possibly complete Digi-View setup as well

The system is very clean, and runs very well. Asking $1400:OBO. I'm not trying 
to be greedy, I really need the money, and feel this is a respectable price for 
the entire setup. I will strongly consider FREE S&H to anywhere in the US. 


			****** A500 ******


		Amiga 500 w/1.3
		2 meg Baseboard (2.5 total)
		External 1010 Disk Drive
		Mouse
		All Manuals&Cables.
		
Again this is a very clean system, no problems with it. I have to ask $400:OBO. 
Again I really need the money (College tuition is a b#!ch). I'll also guarantee 
FREE shipping to anyone in the US.


	Please consider these offers if you're looking for a used machine and 
help a guy out. I don't need or want anyone flaming this offer, as it comes 
from dire necessity.

				Thank You
				Felix Marte
				5marte_f@spcvxa.spc.edu

			Snail:  364 E. 207th Street 
				Bronx, New York  10467-4239
From: Dan_E_Babcock@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Northgate Omnikey Keyboard and Keymaps!
Date: Wed,  7 Oct 92 23:33:06 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

[Some questions about the Northgate Ultra keyboard....]

A long time ago I tried the keymap you mentioned, but I found that
everything I ran just ignored it. So I gave up on it.
My QMouse utility (Fish 731 - ux1.cso.uiuc.edu) has some useful
mapping hard-coded into it (e.g. Page-Up->Shift-cursor-up...)

I don't know what problems, if any, are experienced on the 3000.
I can tell you I had problems with my '040 card (A2000). The keyboard
is not receiving the initial boot-up handshake that it expects (or it
is too brief to be recognized). This may be a bug in the OS, or maybe
the keyboard is just out of spec. I don't know. In any case, a little
hack in the startup-sequence fixed my problem. I have no way of knowing
whether my problems and the A3000 problem are related or not.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: rsc@flower.hao.ucar.edu (Bob Campbell)
Subject: RE: Spirit IN-1000 clock (leap year)
Keywords: Spirit In-1000 1000 clock leap year
Reply-To: rsc@flower.hao.ucar.edu (Bob Campbell)
Organization: High Altitude Observatory/NCAR, Boulder CO
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 18:09:46 GMT

I know this doesn't sound like a hardware problem, but this is where the message
got started, so...
Can anyone point me to or ftp to me SetClock.lzh file from FF390?  It used to be
on wuarchive, but only ff600+ is online now.  If you can ftp it to me, mail me
and I'll tell you the anonymous site and directory to put it on.

Thanks.
ps - I need the entire .lzh file from that disk, since it contains the source
     code.
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DISCLAIMER: "My views are not necessarily those of my employer."
From: harlock@rahul.net (Mike Harlock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Prac. Periph. Modem and CTS/RTS
Keywords: RTS/CTS
Date: 11 Oct 92 23:45:10 GMT
Organization: The Space Vessel Arcadia

In article <boing.718781735@mcl> boing@mcl.ucsb.edu (Geff Hanoian) writes:
>
>	HELP!!!!!!  I haven't gotta clue what this means.  I've just
>	purchased a 14.4k Prac. Periph. modem and it's telling me 
>	that my amiga doesn't have CTS/RTS.  I think?  Here's the
>	man page from the manual on the test sequence:

You need terminal software that supports CTS/RTS Hardware flow control.
JrComm has a setting for a CTS/RTS handshake.  (In fact, I HAVE to use flow
controll otherwise I have big connection problems at 9600)
I have a PP9600SA modem.  
  it has nothing to do with the cable you are using.

-- 
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From: drchip@cup.portal.com (MYRON A LIEBERMAN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Urgent - should I buy this accelerator?
Date: Thu,  8 Oct 92 02:47:29 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)


>Is it a good buy?
>Would I do better with an A2620?
>Will it be a lot better than a 14MHz 68000 with 68881?

A 68020 board for 225 pounds doesn't seem like a good buy when a 68030
board with 68882 coprocessor (both at 33 MHz) is available at approximately
150 pounds (US $295).
From: Roger_Nordin@atb.bbs.bad.se (Roger Nordin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: CDTV to Amiga Via SCSI?? was :Can you connect 2 Amigas via their SCSI p
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 06:26:10 +0000
Reply-To: Roger_Nordin@atb.bbs.bad.se (Roger Nordin)
Distribution: world
Organization: ANet Test Bench, Karlstad, Sweden 
OD-Comment-To: Internet_Gateway

> What would the pros/cons be over using PARNET ??

ParNet works fine mostly. Some friends have blown a few CIA chips while using 
ParNet though. I guess this has something to do with the power up sequence of 
the machines. You could perhaps improve the ParNet design with a small 
resistor in series with every control line to provide with some protection.

It gives around 40-50Kb/s the last time I checked, but drive scans are almost 
as fast as on the real computer, so it's not so bad after all. With the later 
revisions of ParNet, you can access data on the other computer, on both 
connected computers.

Some programs doesn't seem to like accessing a ParNet device. Perhaps ParNet 
doesn't support all dos-packets, especially the newer ones in Release2? 
Anyways, they seem to be few.

Overall, ParNet is really worth the price. ;)

                        _       .    __
    Roger Nordin     _ //      /!Net /est Bench
 2:203/602.0@fidonet \X/  Internet: Roger_Nordin@bad.se

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: evermic@prism.cs.orst.edu (M.BiSON)
Subject: Re: Bad exp. with GRAPEVINE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Organization: Oregon State University, Computer Science Dept
Distribution: orst
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 21:55:16 GMT

In <1992Oct8.192544.11504@rhrk.uni-kl.de> ph11mlar@sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de (Arthur Recktenwald) writes:

>Hello,

>I live in Germany and have a A2000. I wanted to upgrade to OS2.04. I told
>my brother, who lives in California to order the upgrade from GRAPEVINE.
>The US-version is much cheaper than the German one.

>After 4 month I told my brother to cancel the order (several times he phoned
>the GRAPEVINE and asked for the order). So I sent a FAX to GRAVEVINE
>on Thursday and told them to cancel the order if they could not deliver
>until Monday. On Tuesday the OS2.04 was at my brother's house. Why now and
>not before. 

>I will never order anything from Grapevine.

Just to put in a good word for them, I ordered a super denise
from them second day air, and it arrived on time...no probs at all.

/X\BiSON
.
h
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From: tom@iesd.auc.dk (Tom Soerensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: VXL30 and A500 plus
Date: 12 Oct 92 07:40:04 GMT
Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, Aalborg University


  Q: Does the VXL30 board work with the A500 plus ??


  If not :-(, is it possible to make it work ??

- tom
From: Tony-Preston@cup.portal.com (ANTHONY FRANCIS PRESTON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: good ideas...
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 07:29:07 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <OD.6badnetOA92-901-302p0_51350a64@piraya.bad.se>
  <1992Oct11.032034.19287@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
  <1992Oct12.191644.20348@u.washington.edu>

There used to be an engineer at West Chester that had a BBS setup
right in C=.  I used to call it and get all sorts of help and information.
 
The problem now is it no longer exists and he is layed off..  I blame
C= marketing and George Bush for that....
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: jpelkone@vipunen.hut.fi (Janne R M Pelkonen)
Subject: Re: Is it silly to buy an A3000 now?
Reply-To: jpelkone@vipunen.hut.fi (Janne R M Pelkonen)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 09:03:27 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.212623.229@maths.tcd.ie> ecarroll@maths.tcd.ie (Eddy Carroll) writes:
>Hey, look on the bright side. It's taken two years, but Marc is finally
>recommending the Amiga 3000 as a good buy. :-)
	Correct. Commodore ought to introduce A5000 now, so that Marc could
	bash it instead ;)

>
>Eddy
	- Janne
>-- 
>Eddy Carroll      ----* Genuine MUD Wizard  | "You haven't lived until you've
>Internet: ecarroll@maths.tcd.ie             |  died in MUD!" -- Richard Bartle


-- 
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From: Barry_Fence@mindlink.bc.ca (Barry Fence)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Mac drive Hack
Date: 12 Oct 92 05:31:27 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

Has anyone sucessfully completed the MAC drive hack that has been floating
around the nets? Could they please e-mail me with their results..
From: fihsu@athena.mit.edu (Hsu I-wei)
Subject: Re: Is it silly to buy an A3000 now?
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 06:06:47 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.124137.14637@city.cs> lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun) writes:
>The question is: is it foolish to get an A3000 in terms of
>future upgrade/compatability? An A4000 is out of reach but

If you're talking about graphics-type improvements, then the hope for the
A3000 is RTG, which is supposedly due in release 4.0 of the Amiga OS.

>if CBM introduce an '030 based AGA machine will it make the
>A3000 obsolete, or will the A3000 be able to move with the
>times?

That depends on if RTG is a success. Currently, there are a few graphics
boards for the a3000 which can give you the graphics improvements on
Workbench that the A4000 offers or even better.  However, these boards
are expensive and it doesn't sound like you are willing to spend lots of
$$ for them.

>
>So, get the A3000, or wait for a cheap AGA?

I say if you're considering waiting, then wait!  Maybe cheap AGA will come
out in the near future and/or the price of the A3000 only getting cheaper as
time goes on.

>
>--
>Lionel Tun   (lionel@cs.city.ac.uk)
>Vision Group, City University, London, EC1V 0HB. 071-477 8000 x 3889

Francis
From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Quick A3000 question
Date: 16 Oct 92 07:03:29 GMT
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1bkpefINNhv2@agate.berkeley.edu> ghorm@shuksan.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Douglas Ghormley) writes:
> Is the bus 16 or 32 bits wide?

All of the busses are 32-bits wide.  On the A3000, the Amiga
chip accesss are 16 bits wide on a 32-bit physical bus, on
the A4000, video accesses are 16, 32 or 64 bits on the same
32-bit physical bus while other chip accesses (blitter, copper,
audio) remain 16-bits.

-- 
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but no way officially representing:   uucp:   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
Commodore, Engineering Department     domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: nilsco@ifi.uio.no (Nils Liaaen Corneliusen)
Subject: Re: A4000 graphics
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 10:34:02 GMT
Originator: nilsco@solvar.ifi.uio.no


> Methinks you've had too much wacky-weed.  DblPAL and DblNTSC both have
> overscan capabilities.  AGA will do everything that the Amber chip did
> and MORE.  Amber could only handle 12-bit color information, and AGA
> will handle 24.

You don't get full overscan in DblPal/Ntsc.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.tech
From: scottl@nick.csh.rit.edu (Or8 (Jerry))
Subject: Re: I NEED HELP WITH MY HD!!!! ..help me..
Organization: Computer Science House @ RIT
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 14:45:09 GMT

In article <Bw2wGy.933@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jas54553@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jerry A. Segler Jr.) writes:
>In <1992Oct11.195410.19735@ultb.isc.rit.edu> scottl@ritcsh.csh.rit.edu (Or8 (Jerry)) writes:
>
>>  Hellp peoples.  I have an A1000 with a Dataflyer 2mb/Scsi hd controller.
>>I have on it a Quantum 105lps.  It has all worked flawlessly for a few weeks,
>>until yesterday..
>>  I was running Protracker, and as I was loading a mod, it crashed.
>>  The HD now boots only on cool reboots, and then it only works for a few 
>>disk accesses.  when I warm-boot it, the drive light stays dim for a while, 
>>(1 minute ish) then it gives me thw 1.3 workbench hand.  
>>  It has autobooted fine before that..
>>  When I put in a wb floppy, it ceases to recognize that the hd is there.
>
>1st I would try warm booting off of a Dataflyer install disk with your
>drive parameters on it and manually mounting the HD.  If this works fine then
>it's the controller flaking out slightly.  I would do a new setautoboot on
>and reboot again.  This may fix the problem but I doubt it.
>
>But, this looks more like the HD is flaking out.  I have a Dataflyer 500 and
>have had some problems (things that I did, not the card did.) but none of them
>sound like this....  You might call tech. support at Expansion Systems (the
>maker of the Dataflyer) and see what they say but I would say your HD is
>flaking out or you have created a very weird and unique error.
>
>-Jerry
>-- 
> "I didn't do it... Nobody saw me do it... You can't prove anything!!!"
>	-Bart Simpson
> "I think the surest sign of Intelligent life in the Universe is that fact
>  that none of it has tried to contact us" -Calvin & Hobes & Many others.

  I fixed it.  I had to unplug the DataFlyerRam piggyback module.  Then I held
down the Left mouse button (As expansion systems said when I called them) then
I just re-formatted it.

 << NOTE: BONEHEAD ACTS DESCRIBED BELOW >>

  Then I put it into my friend's A2000HD and re-copied his HD onto mine.  This
worked fine, but I tried loading an incomplete Anim file, and it crashed again
So, I decided to re-format mine while still in his A2000.  Mind you that both
HD's show up as DH0:, and are both on seperate SCSI cards.  So, the program 
said it was formatting my lp105s, as opposed to his 52megger.  I then proceded
to re-format his drive, and everything was lost.  Luckily though, I didn't
low-level the drive, so many of his files have been restored.

  Expansion Systems software also copies the boot floppy to the HD without 
asking if you want it to be done.

 	AAARRGGHH!!!  
  but everything is fine now. (within reason)



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From: bruce@zuhause.MN.ORG (Bruce Albrecht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: AA sound chip. Specs?
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: Amiga GRn V1.29 4/25/92 (Beta) by Mike Schwartz
Date: 10 Oct 92 21:44:59 CST
Organization: Society to Stamp Out Bogus Organizations

In article <1992Oct7.211824.90290@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:
>        How could you add a DSP to the Amiga and still stay compatible
>with current software (at least with software that uses the OS properly)?
>Lets start with an AutoConfig card for the DSP, add a device driver called
>dsp.device and modify audio.device which handles the data passed to Paula.
>The trick here is to be able to set a switch in the OS which tells it
>to redirect data from audio.device to dsp.device. Since programmers are
>*supposed* to call audio.device to use the sound channels, they don't have
>to worry about where the data goes. The driver dsp.device is given the
>data and plays it. I am assuming that dsp.device is designed to do
>everything Paula can do (vis a vis audio), and more.

It's probably easier to do than you think.  When Commodore released the
A2232 multiport serial card, they released a new serial driver for the
A2232, and renamed the serial driver for the original serial driver for
the built-in serial port.  My guess is that Commodore would just do the
same for the new card.

--
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Youth is wasted on the young.