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From: campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: Re: Rainbow EchoMail Digest (comm port address)
Message-ID: <1521@redsox.bsw.com>
Date: 12 Jan 90 23:15:38 GMT
References: <9001121319.AA02219@remote.dccs.upenn.edu>
Reply-To: campbell@redsox.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Organization: The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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A poster from Fido-land asked about running something called TELIX
on a Rainbow, given that the comm port seemed to be at a different
address than that on an IBM PC.

Forget it.  The Rainbow comm port is completely incompatible with that
on an IBM PC -- it's not just the same thing at a different address.
It's based on an NEC 1701, which is actually a fairly nifty chip that
does, not only asynchronous I/O, but also synchronous I/O, and supports
bisync, SDLC, and HDLC protocols on chip.  It has four comm ports -- two
for each channel -- starting at port address 40H.
-- 
Larry Campbell                          The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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