Well, COM4 traditionally uses the same IRQ as COM2, although not simultaneously. Therefore, perhaps you can simply swap the addresses of COM2 and COM4, by swapping the addresses vectors at memw[40:02] and memw[40:06]?
Joe. On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 04:33:46 +0000, Ghost in the Machine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello All - > >Oberon update: > >I managed to find a version of Oberon that would install in >one large file (30 meg) on an existing FAT partition. I then >discovered it only supports COM1 and COM2. I need >COM4 for my internal modem. > >In the process of discussing my need for COM4 and other >short comings of Oberon 3 with several recently Ph.Ds at >ETH I have come to the conclusion that Oberon (now >code-named BlueBottle) is not ready for primetime. > >Files on the FTP server at ETH are often in native Oberon >formats (ARC and ZIP are not the ARC and ZIP we know >them to be) which means if you have no working version >of Oberon installed you can't twiddle the source files to >fix it either. :-\ > >Oberon/BlueBottle uses no subdirectories at all. All files >go into one huge partition. You must create what we >would think of as "alias" to be able to list only certain >files at one time. > >The user interface is interesting and somewhat unique but >not really easier to use. There are few obvious advantages >and most of what Prof. Wirth (father of Pascal) envisioned >has been eclipsed by HTML, javascripting, etc. leaving the >interface more of a novelty than a must-have (my opinion). > >The people guiding Oberon's development are nice people >and obvioiusly intelligent. I'm guessing they will find that >time has passed the innovations of Oberon by and it is only >a novelty of little use in the real world. We shall see? > >Charles.Angelich > >DOS the Ghost in the Machine! > >Family And Friends wepages - Multimedia >orginal stories with animation and sound, >poetry, music, and photography: >http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/faf >Tech pages for DOS and W31 at: >http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost > >To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with >unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. >Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. >More info can be found at; >http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html > To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
