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Article #2764Re: Question about multiple serial boards
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1990 13:18
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1990 13:18
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> Commodore for not following through on addressing this
> problem. (multiple serial ports) The port handler isn't even in ROM
> for heaven sake so something certainly could have been done.
What should they have done? The serial port is in a documented name space.
It's up to applications developers to provide a way of specifying the port
number and device name to their program. Hardcoding ("serial.device",0) is as
bad as a UNIX program hardcoding ("/dev/acu") or ("UNIX:0").
I've seen people go around and around on this, and I'm still missing the
point. Devices have names. Are the names aesthetically displeasing or
something? Whatever *new* scheme Commodore came up with would have no better
chance of being supported by developers than the *old* scheme.
--
Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva <peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>
`-_-'
'U` "I haven't lost my mind, it's backed up on tape somewhere"
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