[Coco] 16550 wasRe: RS232 paks

[David Hazelton]

Willard Goosey wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 08:53:06AM +1100, Mark McDougall wrote:

>

>   

>> I also believe that at least one person has "gone 16550" to use his 

>> words??? Is that the case? Are there many here that are using 16550, and 

>> what software supports it?

>>     

>

> There have been one or two projects to build a 16550 serial card.

> >From what I understand, they have floundered not on the hardware

> issues, but on software issues. :-(

>

> Writing an OS-9 driver is one thing, but (I believe) the 16550 can't

> really pretend to be a 6551, and this breaks *every* BASIC terminal

> program ever written...

>

> Willard

>   

I have one built by Conect (IIRC)  Since when I bought it I only used 
OS9, It worked great.  I did get better throughput then the RS-PAK.  I 
did mostly Zmodem for file transfers, but I also logged in to VAX 
machines and Unix based Machines at Work.  

~David