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[ILUG] Re: Serial Port IRQ Question

[ILUG] Re: Serial Port IRQ Question

Niall niall at mailtest.inpho.ie
Thu Mar 23 23:59:06 GMT 2000


On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 12:16:19PM +0000, kilmartin mark wrote:
> I have seen a site which describes how to hack a serial I/O card so as all
> the serial ports can be used at the same time.
> 
> http://www.nukem.freeserve.co.uk/contents/computing/serial/index.html
> 
> I have not tried this yet but if anybody does try it could you let me know
> how you get on.

I haven't tried this, but it looks fine in principle, if you're up to the
soldering involved.   You can also get cheap serial cards wwith 16550s which
you'll need for satisfactory performane with 4 modems.



Regards,


Niall  O Broin


P.S. Me, I'd look for switchable cards, but then I'm a sloppy solderer :-)





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