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- From: yxl5388@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Fractalman)
- Subject: Re: 16550A UARTS -- WHY?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.175952.16003@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
- Originator: yxl5388@ultb
- Sender: yxl5388@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Y.X. Liu)
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- Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
- References: <1992Nov9.160108.36650@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> <1992Nov10.144023.29489@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <1992Nov10.173244.16967@csx.cciw.ca>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 17:59:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.173244.16967@csx.cciw.ca> hcp@csx.cciw.ca (H.C. Pulley) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov10.144023.29489@ultb.isc.rit.edu> yxl5388@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Fractalman) writes:
- >>In article <1992Nov9.160108.36650@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> etl1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (EMIL THOMAS LERCH) writes:
- >>>A 16550AFN UART is a FIFO buffered UART which doesn't do many users much good.
-
- Some stuff deleted..
-
- >>>with them, but you can also order just the chip if you want (~$15 U.S.) If
- >>>you're running DOS plain, don't worry about one. If you multitask with
- >>
- >>Not true. A 386sx-16 can NOT possibly handle 14.4k connections (1700cps
- >>transfer speed) without dropping characters. The only way is to get the
- >>16550 chip. On my 386-25 I also can't do 16.8k (2000cps) without the
- >>16550.
- >
- >Not true. To get back to laptops: my poor old Amstrad PPC 640 with an 8MHz NEC
- >V20 chip in it can handle 56Kbps over a null modem connection to my desktop.
- >It only has 8250 UARTs in it. At 114Kbps the poor little XT cannot handle the
- >flow. Thus is under DOS of course.
-
- That's different. Are you using the null-modem connection to download
- files (via zmodem or something.)? Or are you just using Laplink or a
- similar product to transfer files?
-
- >Running a unix OS on my 386-40 desktop however, I lose characters if I go above
- >9600bps. I want 16550s for this machine. Under DOS this machine can handle
- >any speed (I have not actually tested 114K in a proper manner...my other
- >machine can't handle it...see above).
-
- A 386-40 can handle any MODEM speed. Null-modem connection is a
- different matter.
-
- >>>communications and take away some of the lag time in other apps while
- >>>communicating in the background.
- >>
- >>Nope, it won't speed up anything. The 16550 would only make the flow
- >>smoother and not make it lose characters.
- >
- >While it won't really speed up anything, it DOES allow me to operate above 9600
- >bps under a multitasking OS. I don't know how to smooth the flow ;-) but it
- >will definitely help with the loss of characters problem.
-
- There's usually no way to smooth the text flow since that's usually with
- the way the OS displays text. (Unless you have an HST modem, but that's
- a different story.)
-
- =Fractalman
-
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