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- From: wilken@plains.NoDak.edu (Scott Wilken)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Re^2: 82450 -> 16550???
- Message-ID: <20362@plains.NoDak.edu>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 19:57:41 GMT
- References: <4lSBG9kJNt@tron.gun.de>
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- In article <4lSBG9kJNt@tron.gun.de> Mike@tron.gun.de (Michael Gerhards) writes:
- >
- >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
-
- BZZZZZZZTTTTTT! Wrong answer, thanks for playing...
-
- The NS16550xxx has a 16 BYTE buffer (not 18, and not kilobyte). The
- maximum it can save is 16 characters, which is sufficient in all but the
- most bizzare cases (IE, ive never heard of one....)
-
- Scott
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