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- From: rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
- Subject: Re: UART 16550 chip compatibles?
- Message-ID: <rdippold.721939940@qualcom>
- Sender: news@qualcomm.com
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- Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
- References: <rdippold.721702778@qualcom> <HqaBuB1w164w@fourfold.ocunix.on.ca>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:52:20 GMT
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- dixon@fourfold.ocunix.on.ca (dixon kenner) writes:
- >rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
-
- >> Sure you don't have a 16550 instead of a 16550A?
- >What is the difference between the 16550 and 16550A?
-
- Oooooh, not much, just that the 16550 doesn't work. Well, it does
- work as a 16450/8250, but they screwed up the 16-byte buffer so that
- it doesn't work. Not very useful. The 16550A was produced to fix
- this problem.
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