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From: knarf@nasim.cube.net (Frank Bartels)
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Subject: Re: multi IO boards
Date: 30 Jul 1995 18:02:41 +0200
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Michael Smith (msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au) wrote:

> There's a number of 8-port AST compatibles that work quite well; you can
> get them with 16550's already onboard.  (Mandatory for FreeBSD).

Mandatory for FreeBSD? Why?

I currently have eight serial ports in my machine. One four port card
with four interrupts and four 16550A (two in one chips) and one AST/4 card
with two 16550A and two 16450. Works fine with five modems and a 115k2
nullmodem connection right now.

Bye,
Knarf
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