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- From: wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (David Lesher)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Help needed about comm 3&4 usage
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 23:34:36 GMT
- Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews abusers - Beltway Annex
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- Reply-To: wb8foz@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu (David Lesher)
- NNTP-Posting-Host: skybridge.scl.cwru.edu
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- # If you have questions about IRQs (I do modem software problem solving
- # for a paycheck), just ask.
-
- OK, here's one. The ISA bus's non-tristated structure makes it
- impossible to share them from card to card.
-
- But why can't the typical dual-serial, one game, one parallel
- cards share the interupt between the two serial ports?
-
- --
- A host is a host from coast to coast..wb8foz@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu
- & no one will talk to a host that's close..........................
- Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
- is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
-