BP> Hi Randall there is such a thing as a 16650 UART it is
 BP> designed to allow baud
 BP> rates up to 230,400 BPS anyway double the max output of the 16550.

 IS> The ordinary 16550AF has a maximum baud rate of 256,000bps.  It's only
 IS> the PC hardware clock selection that limits PC serial ports to
 IS> 115,200bps; no faster chip is going to change that.

 BP> Then why bother marketing a 16650 chip when there is no need sounds like
 BP> overkill to me?

There are other computers apart from IBM PCs, and not all chips are
designed exclusively for the PC market.  As reported, they have twice as
much on-chip FIFO buffering, which could be useful if you have special
software to take advantage of it.  On the speed side, I've yet to hear of a
modem (apart from parallel port models) that can use more than 115,200bps
anyway.

 BP> ---=ð>BEN<ð=---
 BP> ÄùÄ CyBCiG v1.0
 BP>  þ Ben Perkuhn - E-Mail þ  cycle_1{at}msn.com

I understand Cybcig has an option to use ASCII characters rather than the
IBM PC-specific graphics characters you've posted above.  Would you please
set it up to use only ASCII in this conference, as it's for the use of
people using _all_ sorts of computers, some of which will show garbage for
these?

Thanks in advance,

Ian

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