Hello, Igor:)
On 23 Mar 1995 Igor Tolokonnikov wrote to All:
 > Is there anybody, who could explain me, whether I do really need an I/O
 > card
 > with UART 16550 to work better with external ZyXELL 1496E?
 > A was said several times, that the fast computers (as 486 dx2-66) do not
 > need
 > that special I/O card. Is that true?
  If you run your application in plain vanilla DOS you gain no benefit from a 
FIFOed UART chip. But when you run it in a multitasking environment you get 
the better throughput and smoother task switching. That's it ;)
                                    Sincerely,
                                    Vadim Maksimenko.
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