16-10-2026, 01:07 PM
(15-10-2026, 08:44 PM)MbeeTech Wrote:(15-10-2026, 02:48 PM)fathertedcrilly Wrote: Hmm I thought the serial and parallel ports were always polled with the standard software suite ?
I suppose things like serial mice might be different
probably not going to bother with the 256TC so I can ignore that
At some point, all these kind of inputs into Novato will be part of the repo's Wiki
Thanks
Tony
Certainly with the later versions of the BIOS, the parallel port is interrupt driven.
Not sure about the serial port (if that is selected as a printer output in config/init), but
I know TELCOM uses interrupts for its serial routines for the PIO based serial I/O.
I also know that the serial mouse routines in the xBIOS uses interrupts.
I'm going to build the capability in any case ( as it's the whole point of the exercise )
After all, it's not rocket science
Just have to put the work in
Thanks
Tony
