Hi again, On Sun, 10 May 2020, James Knott via talk wrote:
item a port would need to be associated in Linux or likely in a virtual setting as well.
I assume it would. However, I only have one adapter to try it with. I need to find some of those adapters USB to Serial and experiment once I can get mail at my office, or leave the house again.
Is that com port number determined in the Bios or by windows? By which I mean is it software determined or hardware determined?
Is the BIOS still used for that sort of thing? I got the impression they gave up on it years ago, as it was so inadequate. That is a fine question. My computers are built for me, interestingly enough by a former IBM staffer who now works for amd. I am embarrassed to say that I did not ask once I started using my USB ports in DOS. what motivated my question was my thinking, perhaps wrongly, that there would be a bios setting for USB hardware ports the way there is / was for other things.
I have an OpenDOS 7.01 CD here, which I came across the other day, but haven't done anything with it. After I left IBM, 20 years ago, I had both PC-DOS 7 and PC-DOS 2000 (Y2K version of PC-DOS 7) on floppies, which I tossed years ago. However, it's been many years since I did anything with DOS. About four years back I came across project in Germany involving PC DOS and someone else in Europe had a Dr. DOS project too. I would personally love love love a look at that opendos 7.1 cd. Especially as since it is Opendos, it would be a bit more legal than what I am running on the system I am using to write this email grin. Thanks again, Kare