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Article #10288Re: 16550 Serial Cards
From: Scott Alfter
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 20:52
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 20:52
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In article <Bz3w4n.5As@dragon.dsh.org> gary@dragon.dsh.org (Gary D. Duzan) writes: >I need to get a card with a 16550 UART to replace the 16450-compatible >serial ports I have now. I'm running a 386BSD system as a UUCP >mail/news gateway, and between the 9600 baud modem and the Ethernet >card, the poor computer is drowning in interrupts. What popular >and/or cheap cards are available? Thanks. Cards with 16550s pre-installed are hard to come by. If your current card has actual 16450s on it (one or two 40-pin DIPs) instead of rolling everything into one surface-mount chip, your best bet would be to order a couple of 16550s from some place like JDR or Digi-Key. If, OTOH, your serial (or, more likely, multifunction) card is one of the "all-functions-in-one-chip" variety, try picking up an old serial card at a swap meet and then get 16550s for it. _/_ Scott Alfter Internet: sknkwrks@cs.unlv.edu / v \ Call the Skunk Works BBS today! Ask me about SoftDAC--digital (IIGS( (702) 894-9619 300-14400 V.32bis audio for your Apple IIe/IIc! \_^_/ --==## "Apple II Forever" is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. ##==--
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!stanford.edu!apple!equinox!jimi!news.cs.unlv.edu.!sknkwrks From: sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: 16550 Serial Cards Message-ID: <SKNKWRKS.92Dec13135239@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu> Date: 13 Dec 92 20:52:39 GMT References: <Bz3w4n.5As@dragon.dsh.org> Sender: news@unlv.edu (News User) Organization: Skunk Works Software Co. Lines: 20