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- From: haijin@qni.com (HowieZowie)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: UART chips effecting modem speed
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 20:46:01 GMT
- Organization: Suba Communications
- Message-ID: <4e3hbd$bh1@suba01.suba.com>
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- dhaire@gate.net (doug haire) wrote:
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- >HowieZowie (haijin@qni.com) wrote:
- >: Fred Lowenstein <fredl@quiknet.com> wrote:
- >:
- >: >Does anyone know if my UART chip can effect the transmission speed of my
- >: >internal 28.8 modem? I was going to go external but a techie friend said
- >: >my chip would only allow effectivly 9600-14000 bps because of its design
- >: >or speed or something.
- >:
- >: >Can anyone explain this to me in english? Thanks.
- >:
- >: Internals need yr 16550A UART chip (on yr IO/IDE board...IF you have
- >: 16550 on said board) but was my belief that external models suppy
- >: their own 16550 UART.
- >: Sounds like yr onboard UART is old (which would make yr techie friend
- >: correct) but that shouldn't have anything whatever to do with an
- >: external 28.8 modem. Go external and don't sweat it.
-
- >Well, that ought to confuse him thoroughly... [g] You used "internal"
- >where you meant "external" and vice versa. Externals are the ones you
- >plug *into* a serial port (where the UART is) and internals supply their
- >*own* serial port (and UART).
-
- >--
- > "Things are more like they are now than they ever were before."
- > [Dwight D. Eisenhower]
- Oooops...:\ Yr right of course....got my "ternals" reversed.
- Sorry 'bout that!
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