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- From: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser)
- Subject: Re: com woes
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.223433.13069@unixland.natick.ma.us>
- Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix (508) 655-3848
- References: <1992Aug9.085755.6237@news.tu-graz.ac.at> <CGD.92Aug11225735@agate.berkeley.edu> <2852.9208131413@thor.cf.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 22:34:33 GMT
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- spedpr@thor.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) writes:
- >This change seems to be causing more confusion than anything else. Those
- >die hard unix people feel uncomfortable with it and those with less
- >experience are getting confused by conflicting messages relating to
- >different com numbers. I think we should change back to zero based com
-
- There shouldn't be any confusion. FORGET about DOS! This isn't DOS!
- People who use DOS (including myself) have to know what DOS calls com
- ports, and people who use UNIX (including myself) have to know what they
- are called in UNIX. The fact that both operating systems happen to run
- on the same hardware is irrelevant!
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