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Can BNU share interrupts? These machines ran some form of DOS Disk Operating System and their BIOS provided very poor support for serial communications—so poor that it fell far short of the needs of any non-trivial communications task. You are otherwise welcome to give the driver to others provided that the receiver is aware of the beta status. Any time the program makes an "illegal" call usually incorrect register values. This internal multitasker support has been removed from BNU.

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Flssil and documentation are supplied free of charge on an as is basis to the Fidonet and othernet community. The version number of that driver is as yet undecided. The design of the AT bus prevents any two cards from using the same interrupt.

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Please forward any enquiries regarding this conference to me. IRQ 8 through 15 use 00A0. Applications which use the 'init signature' method of detecting a FOSSIL driver will not normally be affected by this behaviour, but there is a risk that whatever 'stole' the fssil will unintentionally change CPU registers used by the application for the FOSSIL call, causing any number of fossip and probably a system crash!

This is the benefit of having the API in the first place.

See Q10 for more information. It also eliminates code made redundant by not having all multitasker time slice resident at once, irrespective of which specific multitasker is in use.

Any 8- or bit port address may be configured using BNU port. If you wish to run one of these cards, you should try to convince the manufacturer of dossil worth of producing a FOSSIL compatible interface. It is possible that this situation also presents a security risk. Having serial port support as provided by BNU and other similar drivers allowed the communications software programmers to spend more time on the actual applications instead of the depths and details of how to talk to the serial ports and the modems connected to them.

Many problems reported with BNU 1. Thank you to the many people involved in helping the "BNU" project, especially those of you willing and silly enough to run beta versions on your own systems and tolerate the problems. This option has been included for "compatibility" reasons.

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This feature is officially 'not supported' under any conditions, and I certainly don't need to hear that it "does" or "doesn't" work on your system. COM is approximately 11K in size. All property rights foszil retained by the owner. Almost all serial cards are 8-bit only, and a bit card is required to support the upper 8 interrupt levels available on AT class machines.

Fidonet Technical Standards Committee. When BNU sensed a task was "idle", it automatically gave time slices up bnj "polling" to other tasks in the system.

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Please keep the information relevant ie. Beta releases of the BNU driver are not publicly available. Even when the serial ports in question are built onto the same card, very few cards support their use on the same IRQ, and this is almost always mentioned very specifically as a feature of the card. The following dossil is the suggested method of doing this: This provides a 'snapshot' of the driver This need was also apparent for other communications based software.

As of this date, rossil 1.

Instead of "guessing" and using trial and error to see how well the driver performs, it is much better to enable the diagnostics window. It will also include a developers package and an interface library with sources and the new API specification.

Some general 'minimal' guide-lines are: Where can I file request the latest version? This package may be posted for download or file request by any FidoNet or compatible network system in archived form, and in adherence to the terms of the License above.

Special thanks to Paul Marwick of 3: