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PAR and Imagine

    10-May-95 09:50:51
Sb: #11758-PAR and Imagine
Fm: Syndesis 76004,1763
To: Dennis L. Smith 75463,302
You might find that serial transfer is too slow. You might discover that you need to get a better serial card for the PC side, with a 16550 UART instead of the cheap slow ones they usually use. If you add the TCP/IP protocol stack to WfW, and add an Ethernet to the Amiga, you'll be happier. If you want to stay fast and cheap, explore methods of sharing files on floppies. You might be better off finding a good tool that breaks up large files into pieces, copies them to 720K or 1.44 floppies in MS-DOS format, then moves them between machines. It's going to be faster than serial…