On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote:
> >Most users will want to have activity on com1/3 (com2/4) at the same
> >time,...
>
> They will? Why? In my experience, users typically have *at most* two
Most of them won't. I have two or three serial devices on many of my
systems, but in most cases this is a group of modems rather than anything
else. (Un?)fortunately, most motherboard still ship with a flock of
serial ports on board and (the bad part) they are all enabled by default.
This causes no end of unnecessary IRQ conflicts. Usually the modem and
the mouse end up on the same IRQ, as well.
With the new plug-and-play modems, however (and this may be the only good
thing about them) it is usually relatively simple to make them go use IRQ
5 or IRQ 2 and get out of the way. Serial ports are notoriously
inflexible about their IRQ's.
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