>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 :-)



So whose board are you using, or is it a state secret?