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- From: Mike@tron.gun.de (Michael Gerhards)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re^2: 82450 -> 16550???
- Message-ID: <4lSBG9kJNt@tron.gun.de>
- Organization: TRON Public Mailbox, Neurath, Germany
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 17:19:00 +0200
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- Hallo,
-
- > What is the difference between the different Uart chips?
- > There is the 8250, 8250A, 8250B, 82450, 14550, 16550 ! and more. What's
- > the advantage or disabilities of these different chips?
-
- I don't know much about the UARTs but i know, that the 16550 has an internal
- buffer of 18KB, which will save the data, if the CPU cannot look at every
- interrupt, if there is an information. It's good for multi-tasking-os's.
-
- c u
-
- Mike
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