Electronics Barn closing

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Tue Aug 3 01:28:07 2004

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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