Hi Toby, No, I mean Com Ports, or otherwise called, serial ports. Although there may only be 1 or two on the outside, computers also have internal com ports. My P4 1.7 system with no ISA slots (unfortunately), has com1 & com2 external, and com3 and com4 internal, or TTY 0 through 3. I haven't noticed if Linux identifies the 2 internal serial ports or not, yet. Glenn. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Toby Fisher" <toby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 8:14 PM Subject: Re: Oh how i wish On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Glenn Ervin at home wrote: > Don't virtually all computers have 4 com ports, usually 2 external and 2 > internal. Um, are you thinjking of usb ports? Com ports are going out of fashion now, machines are being pushed out with none at all, arg!!! Even in the old days usually computers had 2 com ports, you had to install another controller to get the extra ones. HTH -- Toby Fisher Email: toby at tjfisher.co.uk Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
