Book Reviews: serial communications books
Saveen Reddy · XRDS Crossroads The ACM Magazine for Students · 1994
Efficient serial communication is a tremendously interesting and challenging task with DOS PC's.DOS provides essentially useless serial port services.They are not efficient in the first place, and in the second they are meant for polled rather than interruptdriven I/O.Add to this the always-present complications for low-level work with different hardware configurations and it isn't surprising to see that many books and magazine articles have been devoted to the topic.Here we'll examine three books that aim to teach the subject in great detail and offer useful, functional code that you can use.