FAS with NS16550A versus a smart serial card?

[Frank Kaefer]

richard at pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes:

|Does anyone have any comparative data between running a fast uucp
|connection with an NS16550A port with the FAS driver versus one
|of the smarter serial cards?
|I'm interested specifically in the system loading and the uucp
|throughput.

Well, I have observed a big difference. I had a serial card with
no 16550, and I got olny about 700 bytes/sec., with the 16550 I now
have up to 1800 bytes/sec. And I don't think I'm the only one
who experienced this...

Cheers,
Frank
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