RW>-> -> Did you ever think of disabling the serial port using IRQ 3 in   
   RW>-> -> the  BIOS and let SIO handle the port?    
   RW>    
   RW>-> How can SIO handle the port without an IRQ? Use polling? I don't   
   RW>-> think  SIO will do that.    
   RW>     
   RW>It will; however, IIRC only if native OS/2 comm apps are using the    
   RW>port.  Otherwise, you have to assign IRQs for DOS and Win64 comm   
   RW>apps.    
      
      
   Here's my SIO config for using with PCBoard:   
      
   device=c:\sio\sio.sys [5,INTERNET:1F8,NONE:7] [6,INTERNET:1E8,NONE:7]    
   [7,INTERNET:100,NONE:7] [8,INTERNET:108,NONE:7]   
      
   I don't use the first 4 comm ports and IRQ 7 is shared.   
      
      
   Jeff   
      
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