Electronics Barn closing

[Fred N. van Kempen]

On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:

> > 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.
These libraries were NOT part of (standard) MS- or PC-DOS, so claiming
"DOS used interrupts on serial ports" is false.  And yes, we *all*
used some form of add-on to speed em up. :)

--f