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- From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
- Subject: Re: Serial ports with 16550 UART
- Message-ID: <q95my6.feustel@netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 23:47:38 GMT
- Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting
- References: <303222@mordor.com> <1992Aug12.231757.6451@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
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- leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) writes:
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- >root@mordor.com (Chris Mauritz - SysGod) writes:
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- >>Does anyone know of a good source for a ISA bus communication
- >>port with the 16550AFN UART? I haven't had any luck tracking
- >>one down and most computer sales types don't even know what a
- >>UART is. What is the going rate for a 2 port card? For what
- >>it's worth, I'm using a 486-33 ISA machine.
-
- >Just tell them that you need a card with the UARTs *socketed*.
- >Then buy a pair of 16550AFN chips...
-
- I just bought today an STB 4-com serial i/o card (4 16550s on one
- card) for $116 and the book "Serial Communications in C and C++
- (disk included) which describes the programming of the 8530 and the
- 16550.
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- Dave Feustel N9MYI <feustel@netcom.com>
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