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- Path: sparky!uunet!huracan!hope
- From: hope@huracan.cr (Theodore Hope)
- Subject: Re: Diffs between 16550A & 16550AFN
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.094930.1173@huracan.cr>
- Organization: Proyecto Huracan - Fundacion Nahual / San Jose, Costa Rica
- References: <726992241snx@sound.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 09:49:30 CAM
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- >> Thre is the misconception that the 16550A & 16550AFN are two diferent
- >> UARTS. They are not! In reality, they are the same. Both function the
- >> same way, i.e., with FIFO buffer. The 16550A is the soft designation.
- >> The 16550AFN is the hard(ware) designation.
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- Sorry to keep beating the horse to death, but I have two chips:
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- NS16550AFN (National Semiconductor)
- TL16C550AN (Texas Instruments)
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- I believe these two are functionally identical. Does anyone think they're not?
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- Theodore Hope / Proyecto Huracan - Fundacion Nahual / San Jose, COSTA RICA
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