Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based DigiBoard Inc has launched the AccelePort, an intelligent serial port board for remote access that connects up to eight asynchronous modems to an AT file server. It features on-board serial input-output processing and throughput of 230Kbps unidirectionally, 115Kbps bi-directionally. It comes with either four or eight RS-232 asynchronous serial ports and supports most major networking software and operating systems, says the company. The board includes a 16MHz IDT 3041 R-series RISC processor running the company’s Front End Processor/Operating System, offloading all serial input-output processing from the host. The system uses a buffer to hold data until the file server polls for incoming data, or until a channel is available for outgoing data. Thus, says DigiBoard, the host processor input-output overhead is reduced to under 0.5% of the total processor capacity. A range of operating systems and software are supported, including Windows NT, NetWare Connect, NetWare Access Services, NetWare Asynchronous Communications Server and NetWare Global MHS. The four-port AccelePort costs $900, and the eight-port version $1,100, and is available now.