Craig Ford to Gene Lowry
 > Gene Lowry wrote the following to Bill Kirby, and I quote (in part):
 > 
 >      BK> Oooooooooooh yes I do !  16550a !
 > 
 >  GL> This may or may not be part of your problem, original NS16550A
 >  GL> chips had problems with the implementation of the FIFO, I'd think
 >  GL> you should be looking for an NS16550AN or later chip.
 > 
 > It was the origianl NS16550 that had the problem (I had one in an IBM
 > Model 60), the 16550A is quite suitable. 
Ah, a kindred soul.  My Model 80 had it, too. 
It was one of the originals, and had about 10
patches on the MB.
But the way I heard it, the original chips 
were 16550.  They had the bad FIFO, so the 
manufacturer redesigned them into the 16550a.  
But _they didn't work right either, so they 
redesigned them into the 16550af, the f 
presumably being the fth try to get it right.  
The final chip was the 16550afn, the n meaning 
it had a plastic case instead of ceramic.
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