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- From: nick@nick.com (nick)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: A real 16550A
- Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 20:50:30 GMT
- Organization: Voicenet - Internet Access - (215)674-9290
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- On Sat, 30 Dec 1995 18:00:30 GMT, uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org (Frank
- Durda IV) wrote:
-
- [snip]
-
- >National has a program called COMTEST (you can find it on their BBS
- >and supposedly it is on SIMTEL mirrors) that compares your 16550 against
- >the National chip. Of course, the program is biased, as National wants
- >to show as many differences (read: terrible incompatibilities) between
- >their part and these "imposters". I used COMTEST on chips from the other
- >vendors and they did howl when they found out. But it did prove a point
- >that their chips were different. It was then up to the vendor to
- >convince me that the differences were so minor that they would never cause
- >any application to malfunction.
- >
- [snip]
-
- SimTel has it at www.coast.net/simtel/msdos/io_util/ns-16550.zip
- and an older (i think) version:
- www.coast.net/simtel/msdos/io_util/ns16550.zip
-