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- From: lars@spectrum.CMC.COM (Lars Poulsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Could somebody tell me the quality of Boca modems?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.190858.13662@spectrum.CMC.COM>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 19:08:58 GMT
- References: <05HowB1w165w@willard.UUCP> <NlNRrAZGBh107h@carlos> <C08FLw.3J3@hyperion.wright.edu>
- Organization: CMC Network Systems (Rockwell DCD), Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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- >>The BOCA has a 16550 installed on the internal version.
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- In article <C08FLw.3J3@hyperion.wright.edu>
- thanatos@hyperion.wright.edu (Terry Chlebek) writes:
- >This is not correct. The internal boca doesn't have ANY UART installed.
- >It EMULATES only the 16450. I have one and it can't reliably transfer
- >at 14.4k in Windows 3.1 if you try to do anything else while the
- >transfer is occuring.
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- The Rockwell reference firmware release V1.270 for the V.32(bis)
- datapump has an enhanced UART emulation, which basically uses the V.42
- packet buffer as a FIFO. This is even better than a real 16550A.
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