CompuServe Messages

> The slow 040 is due to the library (68040.library) supplied by GVP, '68040.library' is a C= supplied library. I think it actually came with 2.04 on my A3000. Their non-MMU-using GVPCpuCtrl, on the other hand, is of course typical GVP. > Even with the stack moved, the '040 is only as fast as an '030/882 > combination with the undesireable side-effect that multi-taskin is not > possible when the 68040.library math calls are being made. Neat trick, but 68040.library is C='s problem as they wrote it. If it isn't re-entrant (as '.library''s are SUPPOSED to be), bug C=. Though it is possible GVP distributed an old library by mistake. > The SCSI that they provide externally is useless unless any devices > connected to it contain thier own termination power (GVP hose not to > implement pin 25 – they apparently know better than the standards > makers and every other peripheral designer). 25 pin SCSI is my NO MEANS A STANDARD! It's just a little kludge dreamed up by Apple to save $1 and 1 in**2 on connectors. Unfortunately, everyone else picked up on it. Many Apple SCSI cables don't bother to connect pin 25 at all, causing people like me no end of annoyance. > Ther extra serial port also does not work with any terminal software I > have. AP, Platinum_Works, Platinum_Online… Try VLT, "term", and Backtalk. If VLT doesn't work, you KNOW that the serial port's dead — I've never SEEN an Amiga serial card VLT couldn't communicate with. // Brian — Cruising on AutoPilot….. \X/