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Thanks Gerrit!

Luís Gouveia


Em Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:56:26 +0200
  "Gerrit van Niekerk" <gerritvn AT gpvno DOT co DOT za> escreveu:
> On 21 Jan 2008 at 19:48, Gerrit van Niekerk wrote:
>> > > To get higher speeds, you need hardware-specific 
>>code.
>> > Huumm... Hyperterminal is no hardware-specific and 
>>does it 
>> > very well at 57600!
>> BIOSCOM as the name says, uses the BIOS functions which 
>>are simple polling functions. You will be 
>> lucky to receive reliably even at 9600 baud. For higher 
>>speeds you need to use interrupts and need 
>> an ISR, perhaps even a dual Protected Mode/Real Mode 
>>one.
> 
>For an example, download the GDB source code and look at 
>gdb/ser-go32.c
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