Category: hardware Flags: callout or callback (usually hooked rather than called)
INT 0C - IRQ4 - SERIAL COMMUNICATIONS (COM1)
Desc: automatically asserted by the UART when COM1 needs attention, if the
UART has been programmed to generate interrupts
BUG: this vector is modified but not restored by Direct Access v4.0, and
may be left dangling by other programs written with the same version
of compiled BASIC
Notes: on many PC's, COM3 shares this interrupt
may be masked by setting bit 4 on I/O port 21h
DOS 3.3+ revectors IRQ4 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 0B"COM2",INT 54"DESQview",INT 5C"DoubleDOS",INT 7C"GO32"
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