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From: d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Wahlgren)
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Subject: Re: modem card and OS/2 ?
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Date: 26 Nov 90 16:32:07 GMT
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In article <BiF8s3w163w@ersys.uucp> ersys!bking@nro.cs.athabascau.ca (Barry King) writes:
>rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Kai-Uwe Rommel) writes:

>think that they may be MCA specific.  At any rate, you should be fine 
>using three serial ports under OS/2 on an ISA bus machine without any 
>further device support than what is supplied with OS/2.

It is _NOT_ possible to access more than _TWO_ serial ports using the
standard COM01.SYS driver for ISA bus machines.  Only the COM02.SYS
driver used on MCA/ABIOS machines support three COM-devices.

There are third party hardware/software which support more COM-devices.

Mikael Wahlgren      d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se