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From: ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: COM3/IRQ4
Message-ID: <1991Feb16.203458.2743@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 16 Feb 91 20:34:58 GMT
References: <1991Feb16.035711.22145@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Organization: Oklahoma State University
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From article <1991Feb16.035711.22145@rodan.acs.syr.edu>, by amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen):
> In article <59904@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> dmarcher@acsu.buffalo.edu (david m archer) writes:
>>I have an internal modem at COM3, and it's mere existance
>>renders my COM1 as unusable, even if COM3 hasn't been
>>accessed since power-up.   
> 
>    Cascading interrupts works well, and I do it all the time.  I have
> nearly 100 pc's sharing int's concurrently, that work very very well.
> However, The selection of your hardware is critical, and generally, you 
> get just what you pay for.  The same can be said for some software which
> when written poorly crashed randomly....
> al

Please, don't keep us in suspense.  Please list what kind of devices you 
have installed in sharing interrupts.  What card, what brand, what 
combination?  Give us the "beef"!