> Today I discovered a message during the boot phase that I can't explain: 

> com0 at pioc0 base 0xf6210fe0-0xf6210fe7 irq 10: ns16550a, working fifo 
> com1 at pioc0 base 0xf6210be0-0xf6210be7: ns16550a, working fifo 
> ^^^^ 

> What device is com1 in the RiscPC ??? 
> As far as I know the RPC only has one serial port. If you don't agree, look 
> at the backside of your RPC and count them ;) 

The controller chip, however, has two.  Only one of them makes it to the
outside world, but there you go.  Sensible things like that never were
Acorn's strong point.

Dickon Hood.


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