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- From: wilken@plains.NoDak.edu (Scott Wilken)
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- Subject: Re: Can I upgrade a 16450 uart to a 16550a?
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- Date: 11 Jan 93 23:01:03 GMT
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- In article <3653@aegis.or.jp> davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes:
- >jim@n5ial.mythical.com (Jim Graham) writes:
- >
- >looking things hidden under the power supply. It turns out they
- >looked funny because they were VLSI's not UARTS. Live and learn....
-
- Well, I'm a bit hesitant to post this, since we are now delving into
- something that is borderline off-topic, and just plain petty however..
-
- #1 I do agree with you about Jim's reply... The post he was
- replying to concerning "sales droids who are clueless"
- qualified (at least in my eyes) as wrong, since the original
- poster did mention that Dell told him he had "a VLSI" (sic)
- and that this in itself disqualified him from having a real
- 16450..
-
- #2 Your use of terms is incorrect here.... In the above portion
- I quoted, you should have said ASIC instead of VLSI. VLSI
- is just a description of how many logic gates are used in
- the design. What you should have said was that Dell uses
- ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) implemented
- in VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration). You see now that you
- cant compare VLSI to a UART (very much like Apples to Oranges)
- You either have to say ASIC compared to a UART, or a VLSI
- compared to a LSI (I supposed a UART is possibly an MSI device
- as well since im not familiar with the 16x50 family at the bare
- hardware level).
-
- Scott
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