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From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 16450/16550 UART question
Message-ID: <[24e2dcc0:4910.1]comp.ibmpc;1@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 11 Aug 89 15:00:06 GMT
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>Item 4910 (0 resps) by william.richardson at canremote.uucp on Thu 10 Aug 89
>13:18
>[WILLIAM RICHARDSON]    Subject: Re: 16450/16550 UART question
>
>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 has allowed my USR
>HST 14.4 to work properly @ 38400bps without errors.

16550As have 16 character FIFOs, not 6KB!

They require software that knows how to work with them -- other than that,
they are teriffic.

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