2 Aug
2004
2 Aug
'04
6:28 p.m.
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, ben franchuk wrote:
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.
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Well I guess you have never used a SERIAL PORT
under DOS!
Can we say 300 BAUD!
Grumpy PROGRAMER!
yes, DOS supported (and used) hardware interrupts, but not for
all devices... the serial ports happened to be non-interrupt
driven, as we all learned the hard way.