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From: blaise@kira.UUCP (Christopher Blaise)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Need **LOTS** of COM ports
Message-ID: <1991May19.163538.882@uvm.edu>
Date: 19 May 91 16:35:38 GMT
References: <1991May16.205258.4191@dosli.govt.nz>
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From article <1991May16.205258.4191@dosli.govt.nz>, by srlncnc@badger.dosli.govt.nz (Chris Crook):
> Is there any way of putting more than 4 COM ports onto a PC for a 
> bulletin board application.  
> 
> Chris

	Look into a digiboard (name of manufacturer escapes me).  TBBS uses
it exclusively, and the configuration that it recommends (never tried it
with any others), is simply using COM1 and/or COM 2 with different interrupts
for each line/modem...
    
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