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geirp@gandalf.uio.no (Geir Pedersen) writes:

>Zilog has a newer pin-compaible version of the Z8530 called (I think) Z85230.
>This chip has a FIFO and can suposedly run up to 1.25 MBit/s in async mode.
>In fact I just ordered one such chip yesterday (as well as a databook) to
>replace one of the chips in my 3/60.

>To benefit from the FIFO I presume that the driver will have to be hacked. 

	Hey, this interests me.  I'm having many serial port problems
	when I drive them faster than 14.4 k. (like lost characters, 
	overflow, etc...).  Regarding this hack, what would have to
	be rewritten software-side?

>My motive for the change is to run PPP or SLIP at an interesting speed over
>the serial port.

	You bet :-)  Otherwise, I wouldn't know what to do with
	my future Vfast modem.
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