[plug] PC/MCIA serial?

[John Knight]

>
>Does the eeprom burner program use delay loops for timing, and that's why
>a faster machine is bad?

I think so. We're hoping that with dosemu's option for specifying CPU speed 
etc, will give us the means necessary to have the right timing. IF it all 
works out, Dad's gon get the guys at work onto dosemu too, so that the 
company use it. :)

>
>It's actually dosemu that gives access to the hardware, and you run
>freedos inside the virtual machine provided by dosemu.  www.dosemu.org has
>fairly good docco on port access.  As long as the pc card presents a
>standard looking serial port (8250 family uart at 0x3f8 irq4 for COM1, I
>think) or the same hardware at a known address and irq so that you can
>configure your DOS program to find it, then things should work fine.

Wikid! ;) Cheers for the info mate! I owe ya one!
anarchist tomato


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