Rick,
AA>> Which raises the question: why did anyone think that more than 2
AA>> comm ports would ber USEFUL if they shared irq's like that?
RC> The IRQs can be re-assigned.  When the basic PC architecture was
RC> designed it seemed a reasonable compromise.  You can, after all, use
RC> two ports with the same IRQ as long as only one is in use at any given
RC> moment.
Not true on all systems.  Some will have problems when set up that way.
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