Specifications

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Installation for Windows NT Environ-
ment
Windows 95 supports up to256 serial ports, from COM1 to COM256,
in the Windows NT environment. To fully integrate the advanced
features of Windows 95, including multi-processing and multi-
threading, configure Windows 95 as described below:
1.Enter Control Panel and choose Ports to add new COM ports.
2.Add new ports using the command sequence given in the following
example. If you wanted to add the 4 new ports COM3 ~ COM6
listed below, you would add each port using the following com-
mand list: S2 è 300h, JP1 è IRQ7, MODE 0 è Share IRQ Mode
(DIP ON), MODE 1 è Enhance Mode (DIP OFF). Make sure no
other devices use the same system resources.
Port 1: Base Address 300h + 00h, IRQ 5
Port 2: Base Address 300h + 08h, IRQ 5
Port 3: Base Address 300h + 10h, IRQ 5
Port 4: Base Address 300h + 18h, IRQ 5
Restart Windows NT to initialize the new settings.