● Eight independent RS-485 serial ports

● Type 16550 buffered UART

● Automatic send-data control for Windows compatibility

● Extended AT bus interrupts (2-7, 10-12, 14, 15) that are shared

● Baud rates to 115Kbaud

● Versatile address selection

● Equipment monitoring

● Environmental measurements

● Embedded data acquisition

● Education/Laboratory

● Industrial Automation

Drivers for various operating systems are also provided, including active support for Windows XP -> 10 — all in both 32-bit and 64-bit flavors, and including consumer, server, and embedded varieties — as well as the 2.6 and newer Linux kernels and recent OSX / macOS versions. Many products continue to ship with driver support for Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, and Windows 2000, but support for these operating systems is considered deprecated.