[Coco] 16550 wasRe: RS232 paks

Willard Goosey goosey at virgo.sdc.org
Thu Mar 5 19:44:15 EST 2009


On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 08:12:44AM -0500, David Hazelton wrote:

> 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.  

I bet it did!  Zmodem likes uarts with fat FIFOs.  Under OS-9 with a
6551, I couldn't ever get error-free zmodem downloads faster than
4800. :-(

Willard
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