Date: Tue, 23 Jul 96 12:58:11 WET From: <E00114@vnet.atea.be> (Rob Schofield) To: <hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: re: The multiple COM ports discussion Message-ID: <vines.mmb7%2B548xlA@vnet.atea.be>
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"Brett Glass" <Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com> Wrote: | | Thank you for the summary. Only one thing there that | appears to be | incorrect; you *can* disable interrupts at the interrupt | controller. I've | written software that does it. | | Ooops, yes - I seem to be unable to express myself with any accuracy these days (it's the hot sun ;). What I MEANT was, you can't stop a device from interrupting by programming the PIC, but you CAN tell the PIC to stop listening... Rob -- Happiness is a smoking processor....... Rob Schofield M.Sc. AMIEE schofiel@xs4all.nl http://www.xs4all.nl/~schofiel
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