Re: Sportster, WIN95 and ASUS P55TP4XE

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From: Curt...
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 06:40

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Dirk Ohme <dohme@cpu3> wrote:

> > 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 -+-

But the newest software drivers from most S3-based video card
manufacturers eliminate this problem. 

Best wishes,
Curt....



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Subject: Re: Sportster, WIN95 and ASUS P55TP4XE
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 06:40:08 GMT
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