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From: vixie@palo-alto.DEC.COM (Paul Vixie)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: "Smart" serial boards for the 80386
Message-ID: <3050@palo-alto.DEC.COM>
Date: 13 Jun 88 01:39:59 GMT
References: <4935@dasys1.UUCP>
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Western Research Lab
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In article <4935@dasys1.UUCP> manes@dasys1.UUCP (Steve Manes) writes:
# I suspect that the bus speed is the problem.  Does anyone know of a GOOD
# smart serial board, with hardware flow control, capable of keeping up with
# a 10 Mhz bus?

The latest version of the Bell Technologies ICC card worked fine for me in
a 25MHz 386 system which ran its bus at 12MHz, running Xenix/386, supporting
full RTS/CTS as used by a TT+, and worked like a charm.

The earlier Bell Tech ICC used the bus clock to keep its 80186 awake.  The
latest one has an on-board xtal and fancy syncing with the bus clock when
it has a block to move to or from main memory.

Note: I used to be a consultant before I came to work at DEC; that's how
      I know this stuff.  DEC has no knowledge of this posting.
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