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I'm using BC++ 3.1, and I'm trying to write a program that does some
simple serial IO at 9600 baud on COM1.  I typed in the bioscom example
from the book, but that doesn't work.  Every time it goes to send a
character, the machine hangs for like 2 seconds, and it never thinks
there is any data waiting to be read.  It does this on every machine
I've tried it on, although they are all the same kind of machine:
386sx's.  Has anybody else had this problem?

Also, is this the only way to talk to the serial port?  It seems
rather foolish that C++ with its derived iostream classes would still
require you to use these BIOS calls.
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