OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Hardware
OS/2 on Virtualbox with 8 COM ports
Neil Waldhauer:
I think the application software only does DosDevIOCtl calls that go to serial ports. I can't really be sure. It's been a long time.
But the cards are available on eBay, so I doubt there is a practical need to replace.
Lars:
I understood that Daniele intended to replace the UART HW by some "standard" UART HW. If not, the better.
ivan:
Hi Daniele,
Some information they dug out of the archives but I'm not sure it will help you.
The job we had was to replace the computers for a set of CAM machines that were ancient and overheating. We chose to dump the old computers and build new ones with extra dust prevention cases. The buld was based on the ASUS M2N68-AM board because it had both PCI and PCIe slots as well as IDE and SATA connectors for disks as well as a gigabit LAN interface. We also upgraded the OS to Warp 4 to take advantage of the USB 2 ports. The only thing we kept from the old computers were the DIGI multi com port boards.
With the OS update all we did was scan the old OS for anything that was not in the standard install and save those items (there isn't a list of those in the records) and later returned them to the updated OS. The actual machine controller software was available on CD and was installed without problems.
We did find, on a test run, that everything responded faster with the new computers so that the machine operators had to be more aware of what was going on.
The fact that there was USB 2 on the MB enabled the removal of keyboards (people do like to poke at keys) and the faster LAN enabled nich better control over the network.
I have attached the manual for the DIGI boards that were used for those interested.
Daniele:
Hi all.
https://www.digi.com/products/networking/infrastructure-management/serial-connectivity/serial-cards/digineo
Maybe same constructor will works?
Regards
ivan:
Not sure about that but they do have a section of the website where you can ask questions so you could ask them if it is a slot in replacement fot the boards you have and if it will work with the OS/2 software.
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