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- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Path: sparky!uunet!psgrain!hippo!sppp
- From: sppp@hippo.ru.ac.za (Prof P Piacenza)
- Subject: BIOS INTERRUPTS
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.114740.2882@hippo.ru.ac.za>
- Keywords: Serial Comms
- Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 11:47:40 GMT
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- I have come across what appears to be a confusing discrepancy.
- In Terry Dettmann's book "Dos Programmer's Reference", Que Corp.,
- 1988; (an excellent book in my opinion),
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- on page 425 it states that:
- BIOS Interrupt 0Bh is used by COM1 & COM3 on the PC & XT,
- & is used by COM2 & COM4 on the AT.
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-
- Similarly on page 426 it states that:
- BIOS Interrupt 0Ch is used by COM2 & COM4 on the PC & XT,
- & is used by COM1 & COM3 on the AT.
-
- I have a terminal emulation program that is hard-coded for COM1,
- but uses Interrupt 0Ch. This program works on both PC and AT
- class machines!
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- Also I believe that most PC/XT bioses do not support COMs 3 & 4.
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- Since I am trying to write a terminal emulation program, I need to have
- this discrepancy sorted out. Can anybody enlighten me?
-
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- L.Piacenza - Chemistry Department - University of Transkei
- Internet: sppp@hippo.ru.ac.za Tel. 27-471-3022384
- Internet: chpp@unitrix.utr.ac.za
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