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- From: benny@shadow.net (Benito Horta)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: UART 16650
- Date: 21 Feb 1996 04:03:54 GMT
- Organization: Shadow Information Services, Inc.
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- Carsten Schneider (100111.3727@compuserve.com) wrote:
- : mattbob@ozemail.com.au wrote:
-
-
- : Hello,
-
- : the only difference between the 16550 and the 16650:
-
- : The 16550 has a 16 bytes buffer and the 16650 has a 32 bytes buffer !
-
- : With the 16650 you can change the IRQ-receive-level from 8 (default
- : for 16550) to 15 bytes (if you use a normal 16550 driver). This
- : increases the stability of the connection with high speed modems (or
- : ISDN adapters).
-
- : Regards,
- : Casrten Schneider
-
- nice, do you know of any I/O boards with that particular UART? 1/2 the
- interrupts is real nice. they should have made the FIFO 128 bytes that
- would really show a nice improvement.
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