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In article <CMM.0.88.663412729.ingea@svarte.ifi.uio.no>, ingea@IFI.UIO.NO (Inge Arnesen) writes:

> As have been pointed out by many, the COMMs handling in Windows 3 in 386
> Enhanced mode is simply awful! Character loss will occur at high speeds on
> both high speed DX's and 16MHz SX's.
> 
> The 8250/16440 compatible chip NS 16550, mainly a chip suited for UNIX, XENIX
> or other non-realtime OS's, saves the day for Windows 3 users. I've had the
> chips around for a while, but only last week did I fetch the soldering iron
> and did some surgery to an old RS card.
> 
> Installing a serial driver in CONFIG.SYS patched up for the 550 FIFO support,
> and.... whiz bang! 38400 baud without problems on a 20MHz SX.
>

 Can you tell me what driver you used, and how you setup the system.ini 
 and win.ini files, as i have tried a number of times and windows in enh 
 mode only every see's a 16450 with no fifo's.

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