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On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Terry Lambert wrote:

> > Is there somewhere a list of UARTS that are good? It could get handy to
> > know when buying serial boards.
> 
> The NS 16550AFC is known good.
> 
> I think that's the whole list, actually.
> 

Well, it is shorter than I was afraid it would be 2-3 entries :-(

After all, there are several UART makers (Zilog, TI, Philips, Dallas,
maybe also more). And out of all that stuff only one is known good? Damn.
Anyways, on the NS website they only talk about 16550D :-(

	Sander


> 
> 					Terry Lambert
> 					terry@lambert.org
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
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