Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!b.gp.cs.cmu.edu!Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: 16450/16550 UART question Message-ID: <24e1784b@ralf> Date: 10 Aug 89 12:42:51 GMT Sender: ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Lines: 13 In-Reply-To: <89080907301955@masnet.uucp> In article <89080907301955@masnet.uucp>, william.richardson@canremote.uucp (WILLIAM RICHARDSON) wrote: }The 16550A is a teriffic UART, It will replace the 16450 or 82450 and }give you a 6K buffer that is supported by Telix. It's a 16-byte buffer, not 6144 bytes.... But even that makes a huge difference (38400 would generate interrupts at the same rate as 2400 without the buffer). -- UUCP: {ucbvax,harvard}!cs.cmu.edu!ralf -=-=-=-=- Voice: (412) 268-3053 (school) ARPA: ralf@cs.cmu.edu BIT: ralf%cs.cmu.edu@CMUCCVMA FIDO: Ralf Brown 1:129/46 FAX: available on request Disclaimer? I claimed something? "Drama is life with the dull bits left out." -- Alfred Hitchcock