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From: gandrews@netcom.COM (Greg Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Why no PC modems without UART (re: Beware the Telebit T18pc)
Summary: Because emulating a UART is a pain in the butt!
Keywords: uart chip emulation modem
Message-ID: <23314@netcom.COM>
Date: 9 Feb 91 07:46:26 GMT
References: <1991Feb7.225401.28138@ingres.Ingres.COM> <1991Feb9.022024.10932@wsrcc.com>
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In article <1991Feb9.022024.10932@wsrcc.com> wolfgang@wsrcc.com 
(Wolfgang S. Rupprecht) writes:
>
>Why didn't Telebit take this opportunity to design the UARTS out of
>the modem?  They could have replaced the two back to back UARTS with
>a latch pair, or better yet a FIFO pair and made one extremely delay
>delay tolerant PC bus modem.
>

Indeed, why wouldn't other modem manufacturers do the same thing...?

Ever try to emulate a UART chip in software?  Ever wonder why the smart
multiport boards don't do it either?  It's a pain in the butt!


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