Well Maybe I can explain a bit but who knows?
Hi all!
Well, it looks like I got OS/2 Warp 4 installed in a VM and the BBS working with SIO 1.60d and VMODEM. Unfortunately, whenever I go to
start the BBS, I am getting the popup saying that the virtual com port
is in use when it really isn't. If I ignore through the error boxes,
the BBS starts up just find and runs normally.
Unfortunately, this popup is an annoyance when trying to run a front
end mailer (ViaMail in this case) and it goes to load the BBS and the
BBS exits back out to the mailer when a caller logs off.
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I think few people have much knowledge of how OS/2 handles actual IRQ numbers and ring level work that are really needed for carrying OS/2 back to way before
even DOS operations for some things. For example, 'normal' IRQ top level stuff only applies to IRQ 'numbers' up to what I think I recall are number 8. That's not enough to work with some things that we need for IRQ level numbers which go up even way beyond number 8 especially when OS/2 is 'later' dealing with multiple CPU operations that, as I think I recall this, are up to as many as sixteen separate CPU's which then must be able to be coordinated with each other as to what each CPU is doing that must be absolutely understood by any action even down to COMM ports so that things don't violate the order of operation for multiple CPU stuff that grew up long after the original ring level and machine language code which I was originally working with LONG before
there was OS/2 even there.
OK, If, for example, as I do even today in many operations, use Warp 4 and MP4 later in the same computer for multiple COMM port stuff that does include BBS operations, as well as my custom ham and commercial radio total operating stuff
that controls even the antenna direction and so on as well as integrated BBS operations, I still use SIO very well. However,when I also totally log even telephone line use in REAL TIME to all of this with special total digital phone
line trace work even to CNID track operations in sync with radio station control, total real time double entry bookkeeping and even GPS location for everywhere your fingertips are touching a body in medical work, I notice this,
By the way, all this is in my over 1,000,000 lines of source code work that still goes down to ring level and machine language stuff even today!
When I boot the system, I obviously have to use SIO to set up VMWARE for both BBS and even total telephone line real-time logging for all of this. When I FIRST TURN ON the special phone line monitoring for every thing a phone company
does on the line for digital use to trace where it went, I notice that the actual FIRST IRQ port which is tracked is port 184 if my memory is correct. That's when SIO is first set up going to the special digital tracking device that I'm sure none of you folks ever use. Well then on any NEXT access to the 'normal' COMM port, say number 3 or 4 that the special little unit is listening
to every phone line in the whole place for every touch to any number or computer generated snoop on any line in real-time, the actual port that is used
is NOT 184, is say, port number 176. And that can VERY confuse ANYTHING down to even pure CPU or multiple CPU computer unit operations. Which, to my knowledge, ONLY OS/2 or down to even memory block operations can ever do and Windows has NEVER been able to do after Billy Boy stole HeathDOS from them and took Gordon Letwin away to bridge the lost of what is now Windows from IBM.
I have NO WAY of tracing this to what you folks are complaining about here but suspect this sort of thing is exactly what may be causing this. Worse,unless you can get the actual people that are now using whatever to run everyting in what they all think is their neat hidden snoop for everything that is touched down to evey CPM in NSA or whatever country, you will, I suspect never be able to find it unless you can totally snoop them as well in a never to be able to decrypt trick.
Mike Luther as N117C at 1:117/100
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