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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: serial communication question
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.000439.16313@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1992Dec10.053208.12307@ucselx.sdsu.edu> <1992Dec11.044042.26612@vpnet.chi.il.us> <d9mikael.724155527@dtek.chalmers.se>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 00:04:39 GMT
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- In article <d9mikael.724155527@dtek.chalmers.se> d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Wahlgren) writes:
- >>: Can anyone tell me if OS/2 uses interrupt-driven serial
- >>: port buffering for COM1 & COM2? I can't find that particular
- >>: information anywhere, it seems.
- >>I believe it does. (Most any multitasker has to use interrupts or
- >>_considerable_ hardware buffering.) I also have a deeply held
- >>belief that it supports the 16550 buffered UARTs.
- >Yes, the serial communications device driver in OS/2 certainly uses interrupts
- >for its work. It also supports 16550 buffered UARTs.
-
- ...And the DMA serial ports on many PS/2 models.
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