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Date:      Wed, 21 May 1997 19:48:47 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, jmg@hydrogen.nike.efn.org
Cc:        brett@lariat.org, HARDWARE@FreeBSD.ORG, rberndt@nething.com, WELCHDW@wofford.edu
Subject:   Re: isa bus and boca multiport boards
Message-ID:  <199705210948.TAA16556@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>all we can say is that smart cards are infinately better than the old
>16x50 uarts in these regards...  of course they happen to be quite a bit
>cheaper...  oh well...

We can't say that.  Faster i/o is much better.  Larger fifos are slightly
better.  Smartness tends to get in the way unless it implements exactly
the protocol that you want.

Bruce
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