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From: karn@ka9q.bellcore.com (Phil Karn)
Newsgroups: rec.ham-radio.packet,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: KA9Q and serial rs232 lines
Message-ID: <17702@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 24 Sep 89 02:23:11 GMT
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Reply-To: karn@ka9q.bellcore.com (Phil Karn)
Organization: Secular Humanists for No-Code
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In article <302@van-bc.UUCP> skl@wimsey.bc.ca (Samuel Lam) writes:
>Do you mean I can physically replace the 8250 on my serial board with
>a 16550?  Wouldn't there be some trouble with the difference between
>edge and level triggered interrupts?

Yes, I've done this in my two PCs (one AT and one XT). They work just fine
with amateur packet radio TNCs, but I haven't actually tried it yet in
gateway mode with real SLIP. I set up the receive FIFO in the 16550 to
interrupt at the 1/4 full point, so at 9600 bps the code has an extra 12 ms
to respond to the interrupt. This is a big improvement.

Phil