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- From: dcarr@gandalf.ca (Dave Carr)
- Subject: Re: UART CHIPS
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.143243.281@gandalf.ca>
- Organization: Gandalf Data Ltd.
- References: <1992Aug16.090942.9820@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 14:32:43 GMT
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- In <1992Aug16.090942.9820@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> ab245@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Sam Latonia) writes:
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- >Can any user tell me anything about the 8259 uart chip in my 386sx ?
- >I need to know if it is better or not than the 16450, or the 16550,
- >or the 16550A uarts that some of the other computers now use today.
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- It would be an interesting experiment to say the least. Getting the
- interrupt controller to send/receive serial data :-).
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