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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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