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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
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- Subject: Re: i82510 UART (Serial Port)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.135658.1864@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 13:56:58 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.153637.169@access.usask.ca>
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- In article <1992Aug25.153637.169@access.usask.ca>, tan@skorpio.usask.ca (Chris Tan) writes:
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- | Can anyone supply me with:
- | 1) programs that take advantage of the i82510 UART.
- | 2) assembler routines that will activate the 82510 UART.
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- The FAS program uses this, and will work with most varieties of UNIX.
- It also provides a good starting point for writing your own device
- driver for DOS.
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- Note that just turning it on won't help, since the DOS standard
- drivers still run in the 8250 mode. I /think/ kermit knows about these,
- you might try running that just to see what a difference it make (if any).
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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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