Standard serial/parallel ports for new PC

[Kevin Cozens]

ron wrote:
> You may want to check out the products on www.lavalink.com. They have 
> combo boards as well as parallel and serial boards. They state under 
> Operating Systems - Linux 2.4+.

Thanks for mentioning them. I haven't thought about that company in a long 
time. Being able to deal with a local company would be good as it avoids a lot 
of cross-border issues.

The combo board sounds promising and the price is around the prices I've been 
seeing on some other boards. It is stated as being 16550 compatible on the 
serial port side. No indication about any hardware compatability on the 
parallel port side. I'll have to ask them if its 8255 compatible or not.

The board uses a single IRQ like the other boards I've seen. This is different 
from the old days where the serial and parallel port combo boards could 
generate different IRQ's. The IRQ issue shouldn't be a problem if the board is 
compatible with the older I/O chips. I would only expect to need any IRQ's 
from the board when using the serial port.

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