Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!rutgers!att!alberta!ubc-cs!van-bc!root From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: 16450? Message-ID: <2409@van-bc.UUCP> Date: 13 May 89 18:28:23 GMT Sender: root@van-bc.UUCP Lines: 29 In <696@solaria.csun.edu>, ecphssrw@afws.csun.edu (Stephen Walton) writes: >For reasons too long to go into here, I'm using a serial port board on >a PC/AT which supports the RS-422 as well as RS-232 protocol. The >board was failing to keep up at 38.4Kbaud withouth flow control (which >I can't provide) in RS-422 mode, which it shouldn't do. A call to the >manufacturer's tech support netted a promise to send me a 16450, which >is claimed to be a faster pin-compatible version of the 8250. Is this >legit? Would this switch help the Amiga out at all in terms of its >serial port speed? It would be legit for the 8250 used in your PC/AT. But for the Amiga, with its 8520, (which doesn't even handle the serial data anyway), it would not. In , limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) Writes: >I think the re-written-from-scratch serial.device that is due out in >1.4 will do more good than replacing the chip with the 16450. It sure will! Might be interesting to see if it smokes when you plug it in though. :-) -larry -- - Don't tell me what kind of a day to have! - +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca or uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+