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| Joe Monk to All |
| Re: serial ports galore |
| 16 Jun 21 03:19:18 |
From: joemonk64@gmail.com Remember, COM ports are tied to IRQs. IRQ3/4. There are only 4 because thats all the 8250 UART could provide, and the 8259 PIC could only give up two IRQs. If you use a driver, such as a digiboard, then it could handle more via software interrupt... Joe --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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