Re: Sportster, WIN95 and ASUS P55TP4XE

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From: Dirk Ohme
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 09:12

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> Apparently a bug in Microsoft's S3 video card driver causes a
> device on COM4 to work incorrectly.

That's wrong! It's not a bug in the software but a hardware problem with 
S3-based graphics adapters. On ISA and ISA-like behaving busses the I/O 
address space is limited to 12 address bits. S3-chips have a I/O port 
that conflicts with COM4 on such systems, but would not collide to 
systems with full 16 bit I/O address space like MCA (micro channel 
architecture).

  So long,
    -+- Dirk -+-

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From: Dirk Ohme <dohme@cpu3>
Newsgroups: tcp.support,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Sportster, WIN95 and ASUS P55TP4XE
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 10:12:56 +0100
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