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Hello Jasen - 

JB>>> The BIOS never skips COM-port numbers. if you have ports
JB>>> on 3F8 2F8 and 2E8 it'll number them com1 com2 com3 even
JB>>> though the last one (2E8) is the "com4" address. 

JB>>> Dos follows the BIOS, MSD may be following the DOS naming
JB>>> of the ports. 

RJT>> Hmm. I wasn't aware of that. I wonder why it shows up
RJT>> "right" in other software, then 

JB> because other software doesn't use the BIOS for serial I/O
JB> the same renumbering is done with printer ports too. 

I've never quite understood why Microsoft allowed this to
become such a headache. Ports are just a lookup table so what
was their problem? Weird IMO. 

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