same interrupt, different addresses?

Larry Snyder larry at nstar.rn.com
Wed Feb 6 02:17:37 AEST 1991


gomez at ENUXHA.EAS.ASU.EDU (Jose L. Gomez-Rubio) writes:

>I'm looking to add a COM3 & COM4 serial port to my 386 UNIX box.  Is it
>true that each COM port must have it's own interrupt or can they share
>an interrupt but reside at a different address?

it depends on the design of the com boards - 

>Anyone know of a COM3&4 board that does not use INT 4 & 3?

DFI and AST make such a beast - as well as Comtrol and Digiboard.

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