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- From: elvey@hal.COM (Dwight Elvey)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: UART 16550 Question
- Date: 4 Jan 1996 03:46:02 GMT
- Organization: HAL Computer Systems, Inc.
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- References: <30daf5d2.18633170@news.atcon.com> <DKB60J.37v@bokonon.ussinc.com> <4c3i7q$g0q@news.computek.net>
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- In article <4c3i7q$g0q@news.computek.net>, fulton@computek.net (Wayne Fulton) writes:
- |>
- |> >In article <30daf5d2.18633170@news.atcon.com> thomed@atcon.com (Edward
- |> >Thompson) writes:
- |> >Can someone please explain why the UART 16550 chip is included with
- |> >internal modems but not fitted in external modems. It seems to me that
- |> >if the chip is required it should be fitted to external modems as
- |> >well. Presumeably there is a logical explanation.
- |>
- |>
- |> Simple, the UART chip is the major component of the serial port.
- |>
- |> Internal modems plug into the motherboard bus (bypassing the computers
- |> serial ports), so they must provide their own serial port, which is built
- |> onto the modem board.
- |>
- |> External modems must connect with a cable to the computers serial ports.
- |> An external modem cannot replace the computers serial port, any more than
- |> a printer can replace the computers parallel port. Most newer computers
- |> (PCI bus) have 16550 ports now.
- |>
- |> --
- |> Wayne
- |> fulton@computek.net
- |>
-
- In article <DKB60J.37v@bokonon.ussinc.com> stephen@bokonon.ussinc.com (Stephen M. Dunn) writes:
- >In article <30daf5d2.18633170@news.atcon.com> thomed@atcon.com (Edward Thompson) writes:
- >$Can someone please explain why the UART 16550 chip is included with
- >$internal modems but not fitted in external modems. It seems to me that
- >$if the chip is required it should be fitted to external modems as
- >$well. Presumeably there is a logical explanation.
- >
- > Yes. The UART is part of the interface between a computer and a
- >serial port. On an internal modem, this is part and parcel of the
- >modem. For an external modem, it's connected via a cable to a serial
- >port, and so the UART is within the computer, not within the modem.
- >--
- >stephen@bokonon.ussinc.com ...!{xrtll,gts.org}!bokonon!stephen
- >----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Stephen M. Dunn, CNE, ACE, Sr. Systems Analyst, United System Solutions Inc.
- >104 Carnforth Road, Toronto, ON, Canada M4A 2K7 (416) 750-7946 x251
-
- Hi
- Did I miss understand the question. He seemed to be asking why the 16550
- wasn't used in an external modem and not what was used in the PC.
- As I said before, in the right environment a 8250 or 16450 will work
- at 115.2K. It's just a problem in the PC. The external modem has
- a vast choice of UART's, including those built into the uC's, to choose
- from. They use the cheapest one that works.
- Dwight
-