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- From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: 16550 vs. 16550AFN
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.154705.15985@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 15:47:05 GMT
- Article-I.D.: qiclab.1992Aug20.154705.15985
- References: <1992Aug18.221918.1@vax1.umkc.edu>
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- Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.
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- eputnam@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
-
- >I was just wondering if any modem manufactures (or anyone) would still be
- >putting 16550 chips on their internal modems. The reason I ask this is that
- >I am planning on purchasing an internal 14.4kbs modem and plan to use it with
- >both OS/2 2.0 and Windows 3.1. As I understand, the 16550 is defective and
- >the chip to have is the 16550AFN. Is this correct? If so, do I need to make
- >absolutely sure that I am getting an "AFN" chip, or am I safe with any modem
- >which claims to have a 16550?
-
- The manufacturer tried *very* hard to get back all the 16550 chips and
- exchange them for 16550A chips when the bug was discovered.
-
- 16550A is sufficient. The F & N indicate differences that probably
- don't matter to us.
-
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- Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
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