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- From: JNavas@NavasGrp.com (John Navas)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: (E)nhanced (S)erial (P)ort...
- Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 17:32:49 GMT
- Organization: The Navas Group of Dublin, CA, USA
- Message-ID: <31791eda.6578237@news.aimnet.com>
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- [Posted to comp.dcom.modems]
- Rigor@clever.net (Matt Fox) wrote:
-
- >In article <3177be06.2521474@news.aimnet.com>, JNavas@NavasGrp.com
- >says...
- >>
- >>[Posted to comp.dcom.modems]
- >>an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill) wrote:
- >>
- >>>... the maximum number of serial ports
- >>>you can have is 4 ...
- >>
- >>Minor quibble -- you can have more than 4 if the ports are sufficiently
- >>configurable and if you have enough free IRQ's. I've run up to 6.
- >
- >tell em how many modems were attached to PDSE, heh :)
-
- True, PDSE BBS had a lot more lines, but it used special special multi-port
- hardware that was not compatible with normal UART-based software ( as I
- found out the hard way when I was maintaining the software :). I was
- referring to normal UART-based COM ports.
-
- --
- Best regards,
- John mailto:JNavas@NavasGrp.com http://web.aimnet.com/~jnavas/
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