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- Subject: Re: IBM BBS #tel no. in Montreal?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.192834.16584@midway.uchicago.edu>
- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 19:28:34 GMT
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- References: <724915772snx@tgm.CAM.ORG>
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <724915772snx@tgm.CAM.ORG> eric@tgm.CAM.ORG (Eric Trepanier) writes:
- >Well the title says it all. I am looking for IBM's Montreal BBS phone no.
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- It should be in the FAQ List.
-
- >Also, I'm in the process of buying a new serial chip. I hear that with
- >high speed telecommunications (14.4kbps), it would be wise to get a
- >buffered chip. I've seen mentions of different chip version no., what
- >is the one I should get? (I think it's 16550AFN but I'm not
- >certain).
-
- Ask for the National Semiconductor 16550AFN UART.
-
- >Also, does OS/2 automatically know it's dealing with this chip or
- >do I need some special driver or something? Will Telix (running in a
- >DOS box) make use of the 16 byte buffer too?
-
- It should automatically recognize it. Telix will not be aware of the
- buffer -- OS/2 virtualizes it. (You can give 16550AFN virtual support
- to DOS sessions by using the SIO COM drivers, available via anonymous
- ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.)
-
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