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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: 16550A
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.140813.9641@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 14:08:13 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.215550.26919@athena.mit.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug25.215550.26919@athena.mit.edu>, tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o) writes:
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- | If it's the problem I think it is, it would seem to me to be awfully
- | non-robust of DOS not to be able to deal with a 16550A that has had FIFO
- | enabled. You'd either MS-DOS or the BIOS would send the FIFO disable
- | sequence to a UART before trying to use it.
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- I suspect it is. I'm not even sure DOS shuts off the interrupts, which
- could cause other problems.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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