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From: bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Hardware Flow Control on tty
Message-ID: <1990Dec23.212620.7094@unixland.uucp>
Date: 23 Dec 90 21:26:20 GMT
References: <2173@westmark.WESTMARK.COM> <119@limbic.ssdl.com>
Organization: The Think_Tank BBS & Public Access Unix
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In article <119@limbic.ssdl.com> gil@limbic.ssdl.com (Gil Kloepfer Jr.) writes:
>
>FAS is a public-domain TTY device driver which, as well as supporting
>hardware flow control, also allows FIFO support for the NS16550 UART.
>This is important when you're running a modem/terminal at high speeds
>without losing characters.

An interesting note here -- I haven't noticed any character loss running
a Trailblazer on my Esix system -- someone told me that the Esix asy
driver is a "clone" of the FAS driver.  The Esix driver is also 
reputed to support the NS16550 UART (although I've failed to get it 
to even work AT ALL with the WD version of that chip).  I have yet to
try the WD chips in the AST 4-port board I just installed.

Bill


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