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- From: rlacy@hayes.com (Ricky Lacy)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Hayes Internal UART
- Date: 11 Apr 1996 23:29:21 GMT
- Organization: Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc.
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- In article <4khq7m$4nn@freenet-news.carleton.ca>, an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA
- says...
- >
- >
- >Patrick Lee (cclee@empirenet.com) writes:
-
- > I haven't checked myself, but it's almost certainly an emulation
- >chip. I've only seen one real 16550 chip in all the modems I've owned (or
- >which there are quite a few), and that was on a rather old modem. I
- >wouldn't worry about it though, in my experience you probably will never
- >know the difference unless you look at the chips..
-
- In some of the earliest ACCURA internals, there was indeed an actual 16550
- UART on there. I haven't seen a real 16550 in a couple of years now on
- *anything*. Current products will have it emulated in other parts of the
- circuitry...and you're exactly correct this should cause no problem at all
- with anything.
-
- Ricky Lacy -- Hayes Online Services
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