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Re: Serial Port madness


  • To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
  • Subject: Re: Serial Port madness
  • From: chris@xxxxxxx (Chris Davenport)
  • Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 10:17:30 +0000 (GMT)
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James,

I doubt this helps but....  As I understand it MS Windows does not
support shared interrupts and so cannot support more than 2 serial ports
simultaneously.  I don't know whether the same restriction applies
to NT4.

Regards,

Chris.

---------- Original Message ----------
>From   : "James Traynor" <James@xxxxxxx>
To     : <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Date   : Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:48:11 -0000
Subject: [ukha_d] Serial Port madness
>
>I am trying to build my own Ha system based on a network of PICs and
variou=
>s other processors with a PC athe main controller,  The PC software is
in V=
>basic 6 using MSComm32 v6 to talk to the serial ports( OS=3DNT4).  For
the =
>system to work fully I need at least 8 serial ports.  This is the
problem ,=
>I bought a 8 port rs232 serial card from Chase Research but after a
month o=
>f trying and talking to their technical support the card was found to
be in=
>compatible with MScomm, back to square one.  Does anyone out there have
any=
> multi port serial cards working with mscomm and vbasic??
>
>Here hoping
>
>
>
>James
>
--
Chris Davenport
chris@xxxxxxx

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