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From: bdale@hpcsrc.HP.COM (Bdale Garbee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Bugs found installing V1.3
Message-ID: <1310001@hpcsrc.HP.COM>
Date: 2 Aug 88 23:32:18 GMT
References: <1646@runx.ips.oz>
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division
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>I would suggest adding support for the 16550 UART in tty.c.  This chip,
>which is pin-compatible with the 8250 and 16450, has a 16-byte on-chip
>receive buffer, so an incoming 9600-baud data stream need only be read
>60 times per second to prevent data loss.

Watch out.  This is indeed a wonderful chip, but it's not *quite* pin
compatible... read the 16550 data sheet.  It should be trivial to get one
working with Minix in a PC clone... I may try it myself eventually.

Bdale