On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 01:07:27 +0100, Kris Steenhaut wrote:

>The message came in the eCS group iIRC, when was asked why eCS1.2 didn't 
>make use anymore of SIO.

I can think of two reasons:

1) IBM's com.sys works on many PCI devices, and they can (in theory, at least) 
get support for it if needed.

2) The uart.sys in SIO2K causes nasty traps.  I think Veit had some workaround 
driver for that, but it's not nice.


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