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- From: estarry@oro.net (Ed Starry)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: UART or ESP ??
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 17:47:29 GMT
- Organization: "oronet, Penn Valley, CA"
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- rlacy@hayes.com (Ricky Lacy) wrote about {Re: UART or ESP ??} in
- 'comp.dcom.modems'...
-
- ~>If you run DSZ it supports the enhanced FIFO chip on the ESP board. but
- ~>any run of the mill terminal download protocol will only support up to a
- ~>16550 so a ESP board would be a waste of money in that sense
- ==============
-
- ~Not really true. Even if your software only supports the 16550, the ESP will
- ~kick in it's big 1,024 byte buffers and will also do it's own flow control.
- ~Both of these are significant benefits over the 16550.
-
- ~Ricky Lacy -- Hayes Online Services
-
- ~Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc. WWW: http://www.hayes.com
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- What about internal modems with both a 16550 and 1,024 byte I/O Buffers, how
- do they compare with the ESP?
-
- Ed.. Nevada City, California
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