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From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Serial ports and mice
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.180219.15756@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 12 Jun 91 18:02:19 GMT
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In article <1991Jun10.153842.12545@midway.uchicago.edu> valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty) writes:
>hanj@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Jining Han) writes:
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>
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>>I have a very standard 286 (AMI bios), with 2 parallel ports and
>>2 serial ports.  The problem is, when I put a modem in, one of the
>>serial ports is disabled (com1 if I set modem to use com1 or com3,
>>com2 if I set modem to use com2 or com4).  
>
>You have to disable one of the on-board serial ports when you install an
>internal modem.  Else you end up with two devices trying to be the same
>COM port.  (I.e., I think the thing you don't realize is that the
>internal modem has a built-in serial port)

Is the situation with a bus mouse similar?  Specifically, is there an advantage
to getting a motherboard which includes a PS/2 style mouse port, and is there
any effective difference between this type of port, a bus-mouse, and a serial
mouse?  Do they use the same interrups?

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