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From: seg@ingres.com (scott e garfinkle)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: modem card and OS/2 ?
Message-ID: <1990Nov27.172758.28765@ingres.Ingres.COM>
Date: 27 Nov 90 17:27:58 GMT
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In article <1990Nov26.163207.18758@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se> d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Wahlgren) writes:
>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.
>
>Mikael Wahlgren      d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se

Strictly speaking, correct.  There are, however, easily-available instructions
on how to modify com01.sys to recognize other com ports.

	-scott e. garfinkle