Subject: Re: Multiport serial board recommendations?
To: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
From: Dave Huang <khym@bga.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/23/1997 15:04:34
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Jukka Marin wrote:
> I have a Turbo TC-400 (4 ports, normal 16550 UARTs, uses one interrupt).
> Works just as well as the pc UARTs ever do.  Paid about $70 for it here
> (so it may cost about $35 in the US).

Unfortunately, the PC UARTs aren't working too well for me :) Since I need
this to work on a old 386-25, I'll probably need some expensive card with
big buffers :( I've got a 2 port 16550 card in it right now, and it'll do
one 115.2k port pretty well if that's the only thing it's doing, but I'm
using it as a proxy server/router, and it has some trouble keeping up with
one 57.6k port when used that way.

Perhaps it'd be cheaper for me to find an old 486-100 or something :)
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