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- THE 16550 UART
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- WHO NEEDS ONE?
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- The UART is located on your serial communications board and controls
- reception and transmission of data through your serial communications
- port. There are several variations of UARTs used in personal
- computers. The most popular being the 8250, 82450, and 16450. These
- were released before the advent of multi-tasking and high speed
- telecommunications and the high speed PC data bus. When using a 386
- or 286 in a multi-tasking environment such as DesQview or DoubleDOS
- or Windows, and a high speed communications device, (ie. 9600 bps
- modems) the ability to switch tasks reliably when conducting
- communications is vital. With the 8250, 82450, and 16450, this
- ability is lost. Once communications are initiated and the PC is made
- to move on to another task, the CPU time is split, this causes an
- "overflow" of data at the serial port, usually this causes the
- download or upload to terminate abnormally.
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- The 16550 UART uses a small data buffer with FIFO (first in first out)
- to be able to conduct communications without failure. There are also
- several variations of the 16550. The 3 main ones are the National
- SemiConductor NS-16550AN & NS-16550AFN, and the Western Digital
- 16C550-PL, all these will do the job. The NS-16550AFN is rated for
- operation in bus speeds of up to 20 MHz. This is usually not a
- problem in any case.
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- As of yet there are very few PC's which come equipped with these 16550
- UARTS, you can tell if you have one by looking on your serial board
- for a 40 pin chip with the numbers 8250, 82450, 16450 or 16550 on it.
- If your PC does not have one and you are experiencing problems with
- your modem or data transmission you probably need one.
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- You can obtain these 16550 UARTS and AT I/O boards already equipped
- below:
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- ATTENTION HST/DESQVIEW/MULTITASKING USERS:
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- If you are in need of AT I/O Cards with 16550 UARTS we have them.
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- 2 Serial Ports - COM1 - COM4 IRQ2-IRQ5 selectable
- 1 Parallel Port - LPT1 - LPT3 selectable
- 1 Game Port
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- The boards are equipped with 2 Western Digital 16C550 UARTS OR
- 2 National SemiConductor N16550AFN UARTS with FIFO
- for High Speed serial operations.
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- $89.95
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- SEPARATE UART PRICING: WD 16C550PL - $13.95
- NS 16550AFN - $20.95
- 1 YR Warranty Prices Subject to Change
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- R&S DATA SYSTEMS, INC.
- 820 East Highway 434
- TO ORDER, PHONE: (407) 331-1424 Longwood, FL 32750
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