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- Subject: Re: Which modem - internal or external ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.111006.1@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu>
- From: cvetp036@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu
- Date: 11 Jan 93 11:10:06 PST
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- In article <1993Jan11.094649.20591@news.uit.no>, geiri@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (Geir Inge Jensen) writes:
- > I am planning to buy a USR Sportster modem in the near future. But should I
- > buy a internal or external one ? This is a high speed modem, and if the
- > UART on the internal one don't support buffered I/O, wont I then have a
- > problem in OS/2 ? If I buy a external one, I could always put a 16650AFN
- > UART on the I/O device. What do the people out there suggest ?
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- The internal Sportster comes with a 16550 UART, I think.
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- If you have an empty socket on your serial card you can always drop in a
- 16550 yourself for around $10.
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