Re: GS/OS Driver for a Super Serial Card?

[cdeschu@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Chris Deschu)]

In article <CMKwwx.K4n@actrix.gen.nz>,
David Empson <dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
>In article <1994Mar9.073234.10107@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>,
>Chris Deschu <cdeschu@nyx10.cs.du.edu> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 	I was just wondering if apple (or anyone) ever got around to
>> making a gs/os port driver for a Super Serial Card?
>
>By "Port Driver", do you mean a GS/OS character device driver, or a
>Print Manager Port Driver?  The latter has nothing to do with GS/OS -
>it is associated with the toolbox, and is independent of any driver
>that GS/OS might use.
>
>If the Super Serial Card is in a slot set to "Your Card", GS/OS will
>automatically generate a character device driver to use the card.
>There is no fully-featured "loaded" driver for the SSC (or even for
>the IIgs serial port).
>
>I'm not aware of a Print Manager Port Driver for the SSC.

Well, I meant a driver that will show up in the 'direct connect printer'
control panel, so I can hook up an imagewriter to it, and print
from GS/OS based applications. So I guess I meant a Print Manager
driver. I'm surprised that there isn't one, since it's an actual
apple product, and there are ones for parallel cards, etc. I guess
they figured that if you had a serial printer, you would use a
built in serial port. I mean, nobody could possibly run out of ports,
right? :) Well think again, Apple, I did...

>> With appletalk and a modem connected, I've run out of places to plug
>> in my printer. I've got this nice SSC in my gs, and no way for gs/os
>> to see it.
>
>GS/OS has never implemented support for devices in "switched out"
>slots/ports.  There is a partially implemented mechanism called the
>Slot Arbiter, which is supposed to allow device drivers to be able to
>access all seven ports and all seven slots, but it has never been
>fully implemented, probably because of compatibility problems with
>existing drivers and applications.

Now that's interesting. I hope they find the time to finish it,
it would give us more flexibility in system configuration.

>David Empson                                                               
>dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz                                                
>Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand 

Sorry about the confusion about different driver types...

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