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Rebecca and Rowland <real-address-in-sig@rhu.barb.foobar> wrote:

> Alan W. Frame <alan.frame@acm.org> wrote:
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> > No problems here.
> > Global Village Fax 2.6.3, OT/PPP 1.0 on a Quadra 660 AV.
> 
> Well I never...  Which OS?

7.6 (US version for some obscure reason)

> (I've heard of lots of people with 68040 Macs having the sort of
> problems I've described, but no other sort of Mac.  Maybe it's a bug
> they put in some versions of the software but not others?)
> 
> Aha!  You've got a DMA serial port, haven't you?  I bet that's the
> saving feature!

Mmm, probably. :-)
 
> > It did get a bit confused once when I was watching EuroSport on the
> > (old) Apple Video Player, running Plaintalk, Megaphone, and ARA client &
> > Personal server while using the old ConfigPPP, but that's not
> > surprising...
> 
> Plaintalk?  I didn't know you could use that without a PPC. 

Yes - Plaintalk arrived with the '040 AV machines.

> But yes, I can see the scope for problems with that lot.
I did once manage to read Quickmails (ADSP), send an AppleLink (X25),
run a VT220 termulator onto a VAX (LAT), Timbuktu onto a Mac in Holland
(ADSP), run a DAL session against Ingreson the VAX (TCP/IP) *and* run
Netscape (TCP/IP) *all* at the same time, and *that* worked OK[1] :-)

Oh, and I was probably also connected to a couple of file servers.

rgds, Alan
[1] perhaps I should have tried to sync a Newton over the serial
port too.
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