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- From: pascal@CAM.ORG (Pascal Gosselin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Who makes VESA local bus motherboards?
- Message-ID: <BuHHDC.1vE@CAM.ORG>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 21:07:59 GMT
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- pdc@lunch.wpd.sgi.com (Paul Close) writes:
- >The 16550 is important for multitasking OS's that support it, like OS/2 and
- >unix. To my knowledge, windows doesn't have a 16550-specific driver, so
- >getting one wouldn't help. I don't know for sure, because I run windows
- >under OS/2 (Win-OS/2) which isn't the same.
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- Nope, Windows 3.1 specifically supports the 16550.
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