How to physically tell 16550 UART chips??

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From: Barry Ward
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:00

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Does anybody know how to see if a UART chip is of the type 16550  by
sight -- without having to install the card and run the MSD programme.

Thanks

Barry

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