Talk:Serial Programming/DOS Programming

New DOS Serial COMM programs

While it may seem a little unusual to be creating a DOS serial communications package, this isn't really all that far fetched as embedded systems are still very common and you can get very inexpensive hardware that has x386 or even Pentium processors on them, where operating systems like FreeDOS are all that is really needed for the application. To have to resort to a full operating system like Linux or (heaven forbid!) Windows CE when all you need is some simply communications drivers, why not do them in DOS?

While I will admit this is a section has historical purposes, it still demonstrates operating directly with the UART chips (something all serious serial programming will have to deal with in one form or another) and how to perhaps even write and debug the drivers. In addition, I dare anybody to show how serial communications subroutines can be more efficiently written than dealing with hardware on this level. --Rob Horning 21:14, 2 August 2006 (UTC)