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From: larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386,comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ranting on serial I/O cards
Summary: 16550AFN serial ports
Message-ID: <511205@nstar.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 90 11:32:43 GMT
References: <343@mtndew.UUCP> <25e2f06a:817.1comp.unix.i386;1@tronsbox.UUCP> <196@van-bc.UUCP>
Organization: Northern Star Communications, Notre Dame, IN, USA
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In article <196@van-bc.UUCP>, sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) writes:
> 
> On Xenix even using 16450's will work for one or two Trailblazers quite
> nicely. On my system (25Mhz 386) I didn't really notice a tremendous load.
> 
> With 16550's I have run three Trailblazers and three 2400 Hayes with little
> loading and no character loss problems.
> 

Ahh - but with Xenix.  Unix would have problems with 3 blazers and 3 2400
baud modems all going full bang on dumb ports.  I wonder if 16550AFNs and
a replacement driver (FASY, Murray) would work in the above installation
(under 386/ix of course) supporting 6 modems?

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