they work with dos,linux,windowes Nt 95 & 98 -- a 4 port board will give
you com1-4 on 1 interrupt.  8 or more ports will probably be inaccessable
due to the inability of the PIC programming software.. (I.E. the guys
that wrote the programming app dont understand or know of the existance of
such devices (they have been around cince 1986) Which is typical of most
commercial software. but a 4 port board should work great, and you dont
get the dreaded com1-com3 conflict with a mouse. My Basicstamp software
works with my 8 port board :-)


On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Scott Newell wrote:

> >As for serial ports this is not the case... you can purchase 4-8-16 or
> >even 32 port serial boards that only use 1 interrupt for all of the ports
> >on the board. "I dont have a free int. for that board you say? Disable an
>
> But do they work with existing software?
>
>
> newell
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