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How many parallel and serial port can I use in DOS ? (Developers)

posted by RayeR , CZ, 09.01.2013, 13:40

> At the present time I already use a PCI card with moschip which gives
> serial and parallel ports at adresses like E000 or E400. It seems to work
> well so I will just try to put more PCI-cards!
>
> I'll try to give a feedback if I find something interesting.

You can write a driver, that will probe PCI bus (directly or via PCI bios) for such UART chips, then read theirs IO base and then handle as normal serial port. Also you need to solve shared interrupts some way. But you cannot learn old apps to use this ports.

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Complete thread:

• How many parallel and serial port can I use in DOS ? - Damien, 06.01.2013, 16:05 (Developers)
  • How many parallel and serial port can I use in DOS ? - RayeR, 06.01.2013, 21:32
    • How many parallel and serial port can I use in DOS ? - marcov, 07.01.2013, 18:29
      • How many parallel and serial port can I use in DOS ? - RayeR, 08.01.2013, 03:49
      • How many parallel and serial port can I use in DOS ? - Damien, 09.01.2013, 12:58
        • How many parallel and serial port can I use in DOS ? - RayeR, 09.01.2013, 13:40