On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 04:16:20PM -0000, Brady, Padraig wrote:
> He said the modem worked fine, so the UART must
> have been working fine. I'd say the UART on any
> bog standard 486 is fine.
Most 486es I've seen had 16450 UARTs, which lack the FIFO and hence won't
provide much speed. That can be easliy remedied by buying some el cheapo
multi I/O card with fast serial ports (i.e. 16550 UARTs), as I just
successfully did with an old 386.
Thomas
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