The new card builds on Lava's two popular products : a line of COM port accelerators for modes and a parallel-port PCI accelerator for Zip drives and parallel-port scanners.
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After the RS-232 COM port was removed from most IBM PC compatible computers in the 2000s, an external USB-to-UART serial adapter cable was used to compensate for the loss.
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As far as I know, this could be only one or two things _ specifying the wrong COM port to the software, or that dread affliction, the IRQ conflict.
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The Microsoft MS-DOS and COM ports : COM1, COM2, . . etc . Ports numbered greater than COM9 should be referred to using the \ \ . \ COM10 syntax.
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Windows 98 Second Edition improved WDM support in general for all devices, and it introduced support for WDM for modems ( and therefore USB modems and virtual COM ports ).
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There are a limited number of interrupts in a personal computer, and most systems are set up so that odd-numbered COM ports share one interrupt, and even-numbered COM ports share another.
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Standard PCs then and today have only one or two ( if any ) serial ports ( COM ports ), which are needed to connect an external modem to a computer.
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There are a limited number of interrupts in a personal computer, and most systems are set up so that odd-numbered COM ports share one interrupt, and even-numbered COM ports share another.
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To make it work with an existing port, that port needs to have five lines of GPIO ( well, GPI ) for NSEW and one button, which a COM port won't do.
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A redirector for the Windows operating system is typically configured using a control-panel style graphical user interface for creating virtual COM ports, configuring settings for individual COM ports, and configuring global settings affecting all COM ports.
