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On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, ben franchuk wrote:
>
> > Well I guess you have never used a SERIAL PORT under DOS!
> > Can we say 300 BAUD!
> > Grumpy PROGRAMER!
> yes, DOS supported (and used) hardware interrupts, but not for
> all devices... the serial ports happened to be non-interrupt
> driven, as we all learned the hard way.

Huh?  I guess maybe if you went through the BIOS?  I always used serial
port libraries that ran the serial ports on their respective interrupts.

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