'386 Unix Wars

[Larry Snyder]

evan at telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:

>Both the Corollory 8x4 boards and the Consensys Powerports require you
>to set a separate memory address for each board (you shouldn't need too
>many boards, though, as they can be configured to hold 32 and 48 ports
>per board, respectively).

>On both cards, the address is settable to EITHER somewhere above 12Meg
>or somewhere between 640K and 1Meg. One has to be a bit careful about a
>setting in the latter range because it can conflict with auxilliary BIOS
>locations (often found on video or disk boards). But it is preferable,
>and necessary if you want to install >12Meg of RAM.

>Both cards require you to set a port, and the Corollory needs an
>interrupt too.

Likewise on the Computone Intelliport - they require an interrupt
and can be addressed either from 12-16 megabytes - or below one megabyte -
but the issue is finding enough memory below 1 MEG in one block to get
the job done..


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