hardware control / SCO Unix

Michael Davidson md at sco.COM
Wed Aug 29 09:50:38 AEST 1990


vlr at litwin.com (Vic Rice) writes:

>root at grumbly.UUCP (rb duc) writes:

>>Does anyone know anything about whether SCO Unix can take advantage of
>>high speed serial UARTs (NS16550AFN, etc) and hardware flow control?

>First question: No, the standard SCO serial drivers do not take advantage
>	        of the FIFO buffer in the NS16550AFN UART.

Actually SCO UNIX System V/386 release 3.2 version 2 which is now
shipping *does* take advantage of 16550 FIFOs - this was one of
the features added in SCO 3.2.2



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