Re: Re: Computer
By: Vk3jed to Mro on Thu Aug 25 2016 12:31 pm
> > Mr> i dont think an 8088 has that.
> > It's on the I/O card. I had a 286 with 16550s on the IO card and it
> > could handle 14.4 just fine. The 16550 had a 16 byte buffer to hold
> > inbound data, 16450s had 2 bytes, and 8250s no bytes.
> Mr> yeah but this is an 8088
> 8088 is a CPU, the other chips we're talking about are UARTs. Different
> beasts. Every 8088 PC with a serial port used some form of UART.
> Initially, it was the 8250, then the 16450, but the 16550, with its better
yeah but i'm talking about the type of computer that has that processor.
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