JIM HOLSONBACK wrote in a message to MATT MC_CARTHY:

 JH> Not a biggie, but practice where I volunteer is to generally leave
 JH> COM1 for serial mouse or other,  and they set a jumperable internal
 JH> modem for COM2 - IRQ3. 

I'm not sure just why I did it,  but some time back I also decided that the
modem belonged on COM2,  rather than COM1.  I used to have a serial mouse
connected to COM1 on this box,  but don't any longer.  It's something I've
been doing for years,  and now can't remember why I decided that it would
be a good idea...

Oh!  Maybe it was because of the original "multi-i/o" board I was
using?  The one that had one uart and an empty socket,  where the 16550 got
put?  :-)

 JH> They generally disable COM2 in SETUP, but I haven't been doing 
 JH> that recently.

Not being into the use of internal modems here,  I wouldn't be in the habit
of doing that,  either.

 JH> BIR some time back someone posted a fairly good reason for doing it
 JH> your way, with Modem on COM1, but I can't recall what it was.

See above?  :-)

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