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From: root@zswamp.uucp (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: AT I/O card with 16550, available
Message-ID: <7221.280D280B@zswamp.uucp>
Date: 17 Apr 91 18:50:54 GMT
Organization: Izot's Swamp BBS (FidoNet), Kitchener, Ontario
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In a letter to All, John Temples (john@jwt.UUCP ) wrote:

 >I don't know what the moral of this story is, but I would 
 >have to
 >speculate that both the ESIX and FAS 2.07 asy drivers are 
 >buggy, and
 >that whatever might be wrong with WD 16550 chips, my usage 
 >of them
 >doesn't bring its problems out.

   As I understand it, the WD 16550s only exhibit problems at low bit rates 
(2400 bps and below); you may not encounter the problems.

   I'd be interested in hearing from people using the MX 16550 in both 
buffered and unbuffered mode.
 

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