Category: hardware Flags: callout or callback (usually hooked rather than called)
INT 0B - IRQ3 - SERIAL COMMUNICATIONS (COM2)
Desc: automatically asserted by the UART when COM2 needs attention, if the
UART has been programmed to generate interrupts
Notes: the TOPS and PCnet adapters use this interrupt request line as an
alternate
on PS/2s, COM2 through COM8 share this interrupt; on many PC's, COM4
shares this interrupt
may be masked by setting bit 3 on I/O port 21h
DOS 3.3+ revectors IRQ3 to a stack-switching routine unless STACKS=0
has been set in CONFIG.SYS. MS/PC-DOS use the IBM Interrupt Sharing
Protocol (see #02568) when hooking this IRQ
SeeAlso: INT 0C"COM1",INT 53"DESQview",INT 5B"DoubleDOS",INT 7B"GO32"
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