From: hal@pollux.cs.uga.edu (Hal N. Brooks) Subject: 16550 UART (was Re: Question on RAYSHADE) Date: 22 Jun 1992 07:50:55 GMT
jwinstea@jarthur.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) writes:
>ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) writes:
>>On another note, I'd like to point out that the serial code works rather
>>nicely on Linux 0.96a-patch1.
>
>I'll have to actually disagree there - I'm dropping characters and
[stuff deleted]
>
>Of course, I'm running 9600 bps without a 16550A UART, which is
>probably not the brightest thing to be doing. (Anyone know of a good
>place to order a 2 or 3 serial port card that can be set as COM[1234]
>with IRQ[2345]?)
>
I will quote from a recent posting by Ian Mercado to comp.os.os2.misc:
>Got mine from Zero Networking (?) for $25 plus shipping ($7.75 two day air).
>It had two serial ports (one 16450, one 16550), one printer port and one
>game port. Interrupts were quite configurable for all ports but the game port.
>Disabling ports was also available.
>
>They had an ad in the latest PC Week.
>
I feel certain that Ian must be refering to Zero One Networking
(the same people that are selling the ZyXel V.32bis modems), though
I haven't seen the mentioned issue of PC Week. If so, their number
is 800-255-4101. Only one 16550, but it sounds like a very good
price. I assume that it's for an ISA bus.
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