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- From: delfin.com!paul@overmind.mind.org
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Polled ports
- Message-ID: <2178488@overmind.citadel>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 00:08:00 GMT
- Organization: Delfin Systems, Sunnyvale CA
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- In article <115201@glidden.UUCP>, bill@glidden.UUCP (Bill Glidden) writes:
- |> Sometimes when I first boot Coherent, my com2r port won't function
- |> until I have accessed the port com2pl.
- On some machines (I don't know which ones), the interrupts are
- "activated" until a polled access is done. I'm told that DOS is
- always pooled, so this hardware difference is overlooked. My machine
- has the same problem, and I just permanently changed it to polling.
-
- -paul black-
- 8-)K>
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