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- Path: cc.usu.edu!jrd
- From: jrd@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: UART or ESP ??
- Message-ID: <1996Feb8.172645.73619@cc.usu.edu>
- Date: 8 Feb 96 17:26:45 MDT
- References: <4falsu$o1c@ftp.univie.ac.at>
- Organization: Utah State University
-
- In article <4falsu$o1c@ftp.univie.ac.at>, a9300343@unet.univie.ac.at (Ralph Staudigl) writes:
- > After buying my 28800 modem I found out, that i ve got a 8250
- > Uart-chip and that I have to look for an extra serial port card.
- > After some netsearching I found 2 solutions.
- > One is buying a 16550 or 16650 Uart serial port card,
- > the other was getting the Hayes ESP Communication Accelerator
- > which has a 1024 byte buffer and a communication Co-Processor and
- > allows throughput up to 200.000 bps with special software.
- > (dont ask me what this thing does eccept doing some work for the main
- > processor)
- > So has anyone heard of the esp seriall port card or uses it ???
- > Another question :
- > Where can I get this card in London ???
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- I have a dual port Hayes ESP board and it works like a charm
- for me. The extra buffer space is handy for Windows, if you use the
- Windows drivers for it. A regular 16550A board should be just as good
- for ordinary use.
- Joe D.
-