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- From: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Does any 28.8 modem have a built-in 16650UART chip
- Date: 15 Apr 1996 05:03:40 GMT
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- Sender: an171@freenet2.carleton.ca (Anthony Hill)
- Message-ID: <4kslbc$jtd@freenet-news.carleton.ca>
- References: <4ka0cb$5m7@newshound.csrv.uidaho.edu> <4kouq7$cdk@news.xs4all.nl> <4ks998$pbb@news.tricon.net>
- Reply-To: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
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- Mark Cooperstein (cooperst@tricon.net) writes:
- > In article <4kouq7$cdk@news.xs4all.nl>, vwc002@xs4all.nl (Harm Lok) wrote:
- >>In article <4ka0cb$5m7@newshound.csrv.uidaho.edu>, ma@cs.uidaho.edu
- >>says...
- >>>
- >>>Hi:
- >>> Some body told me that any 28.8 modem should have a built in
- >>high speed
- >>>UART chip such as 16650. Is it true ?.
- >>>
- >>>
- > Sam,
- > why would any internal modem need a UART 16550/16650?? A uart is a
- > device that can change serial data to parallel data. External modems need
- > UARTS, internal modems should not as they are already sitting on a parallel
- > bus!!
-
- Because internal modems convert the data they get from the phone
- lines from parallel to serial, just like their external counterparts do,
- but where the externals send the data over a serial cable, the internals
- just send the data to another the UART on the same PCB which then converts
- it back into parallel data to be sent over the bus. Sounds dumb, and
- actually is, but that's how software is designed to work with modems. In
- truth though, most modems emulate UARTs, and likely don't go through this
- process (they just pretend to).
-
- In any case, to answer the original question, yes, all internal
- modems should come with a built in high speed UART or, as mentioned above,
- an emulation thereof. But you probably do NOT need a 16650, a 16550
- should do just fine. Actualy, I can't think of a single internal modem that
- uses a 16650 UART (although I think the PPI PCMCIA modems use one, but
- don't quote me on that). External modems don't have built in UARTs, as
- they use the UART on the serial port.
-
- Anthony
-
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- Anthony Hill | an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA
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