Introduction
Industio
CI-132 Series User’s Manual
1-3
detailed in chapter, “Hardware Installation”.
Quick Installation
To ease the hardware configuration, users who install
only one
Industio
CI-132
Series board under Windows NT
and
95/98
are recommended to adopt
quick
installation
described in chapter 2, “Hardware Installation”.
Operating System Support
The family is operational under most popular operating systems such as Windows NT,
Windows 95/98, Windows 3.1, DOS, SCO UNIX/XENIX/OpenServer, Linux, QNX,
FreeBSD, OS/2, etc. However,
MOXA device drivers
for Windows NT, Windows
95/98 and DOS are provided for better installation, configuration and performance.
In this manual, chapter for MOXA
Windows NT, Windows 95/98
and
DOS
device
drivers and appendix for
compatible OS
are included. For those compatible systems
not mentioned, please refer to system’s manual for how to install and configure the
standard driver.
MOXA Serial Comm Tools
For application development, MOXA provides an easy-to-use serial communication
library under Windows NT, Windows 95/98 (
PComm
) and DOS (
API-232
). Users can
use this library to develop your own applications using Microsoft C, Turbo C,
Assembly, QuickBASIC, Turbo Pascal, Clipper, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Borland
Delphi, etc. Utilities, such as Data Scope, Monitor, Terminal Emulator, Diagnostics,
etc., are included for debugging or monitoring the communication status or terminal
emulation or even file transferring.
Broad Applications
The board is suitable for many industrial applications. Here are a few:
l
Industrial Automation
l
Factory Automation
l
Remote serial device control
Features
