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From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: LPA memory address?
Date: 14 Feb 1994 12:59:15 +0100
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bcolbert@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu (Brad Colbert) writes:
>: What memory address do I need for lpa?
> 387 (hex) for lpa0 and
> 287 (hex) for lpa1
Except that you'd run better with 0x378 or 0x278:-)
Note that there's a third standard address, 0x3bc. It's used if you
have a Monochrome Graphics & Printer board installed. Funnily, the
BIOS probes this first so it would show up as LPT1 under DOS.
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