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echo: aust_modem
to: Lewin Edwards
from: Hamish Moffatt
date: 1996-09-04 19:01:00
subject: 2 (or 3) Serial ports to one and ba

Hello Lewin!

Saturday August 31 1996 23:15, Lewin Edwards wrote to Hamish Moffatt:

 HM>> If you wanted to do it cheap with poor performance, I guess you could
 HM>> get a PC with three serial ports and hack yourself up some software. A
 HM>> 286 should do it if you're in to assembler programming, otherwise a low
 HM>> end 486. Not for the faint of heart though :-)

 > And how about simply running SLIP and using VMODEM to emulate modems into
 > DOS boxes ? The possibilities are endless.

Well, this assumes that your application software is either OS/2 native or uses
a FOSSIL driver. 286 solution would be cheaper, though more work.


Regards,
Hamish

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