>  -=> Quoting Lawrence Mintz to Robert Osborne <=-
 >> Ok.  If I have had an internal modem with a 8250 UART
 >
 > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 > What Robert has is an "emulated" UART - all internals
 > have
 > that form because internals interface with a
 > computer's
 > parallel bus directly - externals interface with a
 > computer's
 > external serial comport interface.  So conversion from
 > a
 > parallel to serial datastream is needed for externals
 > (which is what a real UART (such as 8250, 16450, 16550
 > series does)
Baloney.  My internal Sportsters *all* have genuine 16550 UART chips surface 
mounted on the board.  The 33.6 Sportster internal I grabbed to examine had a 
chip labelled 16C550ACJ.
Larry
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