Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site intelca.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!intelca!kds
From: kds@intelca.UUCP (Ken Shoemaker)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: PC/AT: Technical Observations
Message-ID: <379@intelca.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 26-Aug-84 01:04:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: intelca.379
Posted: Sun Aug 26 01:04:50 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 22-Aug-84 01:10:32 EDT
References: <12583@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Organization: Intel, Santa Clara, Ca.
Lines: 16

>The Intel 8250 series UART used in the  older  PC  line	has
>been  replaced  with a new National product, the	16450 (said
>to be higher speed on the computer  interfaces).	  Users	 of
>8250  clones  from  foreign  suppliers  have,  in  the past,
>experienced slight differences from Intel's  product  opera-
>tion.   Thus, handler writers should be cautious	of the port
>part change.

No offense, but I think the 8250 is also a National part.  Intel
has a UART called the 8251a, which is kinda close in number, but
quite different in functionality, for what it's worth.
-- 
Ken Shoemaker, Intel, Santa Clara, Ca.
{pur-ee,hplabs,amd,scgvaxd,dual,idi,omsvax}!intelca!kds
	
---the above views are personal.  They may not represent those of Intel.