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© National Instruments Corporation xiii Serial Hardware and Software for Windows
About This Manual
This manual contains instructions to help you install and configure the
National Instruments serial hardware and the NI-Serial software for
Windows 2000/NT/Me/9x. This manual includes information about the
following serial hardware:
• PCI-232/2, PCI-232/4, PCI-232/8, PCI-232/16, PCI-485/2,
PCI-485/4, and PCI-485/8 boards in both isolated and nonisolated
versions
• PXI-8420 (two, four, eight, and 16 port), PXI-8421 (two, four, and
eight port), PXI-8422 (two and four port), and PXI-8423 (two and
four port)
• PCMCIA-232, PCMCIA-232/2, PCMCIA-232/4, PCMCIA-485, and
PCMCIA-485/2
• AT-232/2, AT-232/4, AT-485/2, and AT-485/4 boards in both isolated
and nonisolated versions
This manual assumes that you are already familiar with
Windows 2000/NT/Me/9x.
Conventions
The following conventions appear in this manual:
» The » symbol leads you through nested menu items and dialog box options
to a final action. The sequence File»Page Setup»Options directs you to
pull down the File menu, select the Page Setup item, and select Options
from the last dialog box.
♦ The ♦ symbol indicates that the following text applies only to a specific
product, a specific operating system, or a specific software version.
This icon denotes a note, which alerts you to important information.
This icon denotes a caution, which advises you of precautions to take to
avoid injury, data loss, or a system crash.
AT serial boards AT serial boards refers to all port versions of the AT serial boards.