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From: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Charles B. Robey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 8 16550 ports possible on FreeBSD 1.0 or 1.1?
Date: 5 Apr 1994 20:47:46 GMT
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Michael Giegerich (migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org) wrote:
: My card is a Sphinx AD8 with 8 16450 UARTs on sockets (I'm sure
: that 16550 are no problem).

Actually, 16550 UARTS are a *lot* faster, although they stink for
mouse use.  Does the sio code read the on chip FIFOs?

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