From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) Subject: Re: 16550A Date: 27 Aug 1992 14:08:13 GMT
In article <1992Aug25.215550.26919@athena.mit.edu>, tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o) writes:
| If it's the problem I think it is, it would seem to me to be awfully
| non-robust of DOS not to be able to deal with a 16550A that has had FIFO
| enabled. You'd either MS-DOS or the BIOS would send the FIFO disable
| sequence to a UART before trying to use it.
I suspect it is. I'm not even sure DOS shuts off the interrupts, which
could cause other problems.
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bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.