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- From: Rigor@clever.net (Matt Fox)
- Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Help - Connecting more than 4 modems to a PC
- Date: 7 Mar 1996 00:24:17 GMT
- Organization: Best Internet Communications
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- In article <4gunoa$1v3@baum02.ege.edu.tr>, turgut@vm.ege.edu.tr says...
- >
- >In message <311CD33D.173C@pop1.jaring.my> - Anas <majorkg@pop1.jaring.my>
- write
- >s:
- >:>I would appreciate if any expert can enlighten me the techniques to
- >:>connect more then 4 modems to a PC as I do find conflict in Interrupt
- >:>Address when connecting 6 modems to a PC. I am using WEARNES PENTIUM 75
- >:>MHZ and running on Window 95.
- >
- >
- >First trash Win95 and get OS/2..
- >Then get a specialised COM port processor card, see SIO153.ZIP for details
- >and recommendations (available from ftp-os2.cdrom.com as
- >/pub/os2/drivers/sio153.zip) These cards and SIO will allow you to share a
- >single IRQ, so you can have several COM ports using one IRQ..
- >Good luck, -turgut
- >
- >
-
- dont let anyone from the trex heirarchy hear you say that.. trex
- was a bbs around here that used to run for chat about 10 300/1200
- modems running under dos with 2 floppy drives.. it had long uptimes
- something like 30 + days it would run in a row. and this was just
- 286/8088 machines.. they run linux now, so there something like
- 16 lines @ 9600
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