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Re: Multiple Serial ports under DOS/Windows & OS/2

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From: Chuck Bentley
Date: Mon, 02 May 1994 20:20
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In article <2pu1a8$jei@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> wfan1@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (William Fang) writes:
>Jamie (jhoglund@cscns.com@CSCNS.COM) wrote:

>: Have you thought of getting a bus-Mouse? that wouldn't get you any
>: more serial ports, but it would free one up(?)

I too had thought this sounded wonderful.  Unfortunatly this is a case of
"there's no free lunch".  The only interrupts the mouse had were 2,3,4 and 5.
Since my system already was using 2 and 5 ... :-(  The result is I still only 
have one serial port available.
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	Chuck....
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From: chuckb@hounix.org (Chuck Bentley)
Subject: Re: Multiple Serial ports under DOS/Windows & OS/2
Message-ID: <1994May02.202003.1850@hounix.org>
Organization: Houston UNIX Users Group (HOUNIX), Houston, TX
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