On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
all devices...
the serial ports happened to be non-interrupt
driven, as we all learned the hard way.
Huh? I guess maybe if you went through the BIOS? I always used serial
port libraries that ran the serial ports on their respective interrupts.
These
libraries were NOT part of (standard) MS- or PC-DOS, so claiming
"DOS used interrupts on serial ports" is false. And yes, we *all*
used some form of add-on to speed em up. :)
--f