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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: <1991Jan5.225616.20977@unixland.uucp>
Date: 5 Jan 91 22:56:16 GMT
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In article <1991Jan4.220906.11895@e2big.mko.dec.com> grebus@nobozo.enet.dec.com () writes:
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>Anyone else seen problems with the WD 16550's.
>

I got several letters from people who said they also had problems with
the WD chips.  Apparently, according to one person who seemed to know
about such things, the WD chip is a clone of the NAS16550 rather than
the NAS16550A.  As I understand it, there were (and are) bugs in that
chip that cause it to not work properly with FIFOs enabled -- this, of
course, defeats the purpose of the 16550 chip!



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