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- From: aarond@xibm.StorTek.com (Aaron Dailey)
- Subject: Re: UART 16550 chip compatibles?
- In-Reply-To: dixon@fourfold.ocunix.on.ca's message of Sun, 15 Nov 92 22: 11:52 -05
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- References: <rdippold.721702778@qualcom> <HqaBuB1w164w@fourfold.ocunix.on.ca>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:43:54 GMT
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- In article <HqaBuB1w164w@fourfold.ocunix.on.ca> dixon@fourfold.ocunix.on.ca (dixon kenner) writes:
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- rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
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- > Sure you don't have a 16550 instead of a 16550A?
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- What is the difference between the 16550 and 16550A?
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- dixon kenner, dixon@fourfold.ocunix.on.ca
- FourFold Symmetry, Breckenridge, Quebec, Canada
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- The 16550 had a hardware problem, whereby it 'would sometimes tranfer
- an extra character when the CPU reads the RX FIFO' (from the National
- UART Databook). This was fixed in the 16550AF revision.
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