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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Info on DG-1 Laptop wanted
Message-ID: <+UYAZK@xds13.ferranti.com>
Keywords: Data General, BYTE, serial, UART, Kermit, BIOS
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
References: <5690@eastapps.East.Sun.COM> <1991Apr24.040234.18071@cs.utk.edu>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 91 22:04:51 GMT

In article <1991Apr24.040234.18071@cs.utk.edu> shuford@cs.utk.edu (Richard Shuford) writes:
> General to use a serial UART chip different from the 8520- or 14650-type
> devices usually employed in MS-DOS machines.  Ergo, software that expects
> to directly drive the 8520 chip can't find it.

In fact the chip used was a standard part in the process control industry,
and when I found out that the IBM used a different part (the DG-1 was the
first PC-compatible I'd ever used) I was blown away. Again IBM chose a
technically inferior part for no good reason I could see!
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