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     Thanks to all who responded to my article.  I was unable to reach
  most of you via email so hope this less personal THANKS will suffice.

    I've recieved two solutions that meet my needs :
      o  using the National Semiconductor 16550A UART (very compatiable
         with 16450 and 8250 ). This UART contains a 16 byte receive FIFO,
         a 16 BYTE xmit FIFO, block DMA (on 16550 specific boards), and
         more. Looks real nice to me.

      o  For freeing up your CPU still more, I've heard that a company
         named Glacticom in Florida make an intelligent serial card
         that contains some amount of on-board buffering.  I should
         have more information on this in a week or so.  This sounds
         like the best long term solution, at least for me, and hopefully,
         the board will have an EPROM rather than an PROM.


Gordon Vickers 408/991-5370, at Signetics  (Sunnyvale, California, USA )
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