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- Path: sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!animal!lchiu
- From: lchiu@animal.gcs.co.nz (Laurence Chiu)
- Subject: Re: ugh, more BocaModem problems... (or not...)
- Message-ID: <Bsw4nL.6Cp@animal.gcs.co.nz>
- Organization: GCS Limited, Wellington, New Zealand
- References: <166gv6INNh4k@seven-up.East.Sun.COM> <Bsu8Ht.3E6@animal.gcs.co.nz> <1992Aug12.102759.17311@mits.mdata.fi>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 21:50:05 GMT
- Lines: 24
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- In article <1992Aug12.102759.17311@mits.mdata.fi> larry@mits.mdata.fi (Lasse Hero) writes:
- >lchiu@animal.gcs.co.nz (Laurence Chiu) writes:
- >
- >>About the 16550A I have heard from a local distributor that there is new
- >>firmware coming from Rockwell (by way of 1.25 ROMS) that will partially
- >>solve this problem. Rather than have a fifo, the firmware will buffer
- >>data so that if the PC cannot service the interrupt fast enough, it will
- >>delay sending to the UART (or something like that - I did not quite understand
- >>the explanation). Anyway it's about 3-4 weeks off so I will wait and see.
- >
- >Do you happen to know if there is new firmware coming for the
- >external modems too? (I don't know if there is even need for such,
- >just curious)
- >
- >--
- >larry@mits.mdata.fi "You don't have to tell me nothing!"
-
- It wouldn't need the firmware to take care of overrun problems I would guess
- since your external modem would use the serial card in the PC which would
- (might) have a 16550A.. But the fax problems which exist in 1.03 would need
- to be addressed I presume.
-
- Laurence Chiu
-
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