GM> What I need is the register sets and the meaning of the bit
 GM> settings. I wan't to be able to detect and use the 16550's
 GM> abilites in this program...
Have you seen the 80XXX Snippets?  I believe in 80xxx_95 there
was a rather large (serial18.doc - 130K) and fairly complete 
text file on serial port programming, glancing through it just 
now shows methods of detection and use.
f'req 80xxx_95.zip from 1:346/15
Possibly 80xxx_96.zip .. Both are large files. 
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