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Article #42461UART vs. VLSI
From: Jason Merrill
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1990 02:50
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1990 02:50
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Reading all the talk about 16550AN UARTs in the DSZ and Qmodem documentations, I decided to go out and get one. However, my serial card doesn't use UARTs; it uses a VLSI chip. Questions: 1) What is the difference between a UART and a VLSI chip? (Qmodem tells me I have a 16450...) 2) Is there a pin-compatible replacement for the VLSI that has a FIFO buffer? I use Desqview for everything I do, and when downloading at 19200 baud in the background, I get a ridiculous number of errors. Thanks. -- Jason Merrill jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!jarthur!jmerrill From: jmerrill@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Jason Merrill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: UART vs. VLSI Message-ID: <4430@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Date: 16 Feb 90 02:50:41 GMT Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA Lines: 14