Comments on: High-speed twiddle https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2004/06/26/high-speed-twiddle/ A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD. Sun, 27 Jun 2004 08:19:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Joe "Floid" Kanowitz https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2004/06/26/high-speed-twiddle/comment-page-1/#comment-292 Sun, 27 Jun 2004 08:19:14 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=472#comment-292 It’s the buffer in the last common design of PC serial chip (which is implemented as part of your southbridge, these days). Guess not using it was causing something noticable now that the serial console’s enabled by default.

If I remember right, the real original 16550 had some sort of bug, and you needed to find a 16550A? 16550AFN? to ensure operation with it on would be reliable. Ancient history, now.

]]> By: Lazarus https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2004/06/26/high-speed-twiddle/comment-page-1/#comment-291 Sun, 27 Jun 2004 03:50:13 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=472#comment-291 And to think, Linux doesn’t even twiddle at all ;^)

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