altman@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Jeff Altman) (11/20/90)
Just wondering. How much would you pay for a new Windows Comm Driver that supported 16550 UARTS? - Jeff (jaltman@ccmail.sunysb.edu)
mussar@bcars53.uucp (G. Mussar) (11/20/90)
In article <1990Nov19.191932.18032@sbcs.sunysb.edu> altman@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Jeff Altman) writes: >Just wondering. >How much would you pay for a new Windows Comm Driver >that supported 16550 UARTS? > I personally wouldn't pay anything because I have the DDK and have been modifying the drivers myself. If I get something that is reasonably clean, I plan on uploading it for free. How much is everyone else willing to pay? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary Mussar |Bitnet: mussar@bnr.ca | Phone: (613) 763-4937 BNR Ltd. | UUCP: ..uunet!bnrgate!bcars53!mussar | FAX: (613) 763-2626
thaler@shorty.cs.wisc.edu (Maurice Thaler) (11/30/90)
In article <1990Nov19.191932.18032@sbcs.sunysb.edu> altman@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Jeff Altman) writes: >Just wondering. >How much would you pay for a new Windows Comm Driver >that supported 16550 UARTS? > >- Jeff (jaltman@ccmail.sunysb.edu) When I was at Comdex, I walked to the National Semiconductor booth, the US. Robotics booth and the MicroSoft booth and talked to all of them about the problem with the NS16550a chip in WINDOWS 3.0. All seemed interested in fixing the problem. I made an attempt at getting them to talk to each other. The fellow from MicroSoft said they had slowed down the serial port on purpose because even on a 16mhz 386 they were losing charactors at 9600 baud. I suggested that they could but a radio button to select for 16550 chip and he seemed to think that was a good solution. At any rate, right now, I would LOVE to have a driver for this chip on my COM2... It seems to me that since a minimum platform for anyone really serious about using Win3 is a fast 386, and those kind of users might be into high speed modems as well, that supporting this chip would be in MicroSofts interest. Sell your driver to them! -- Maurice Thaler SYSOP Audio Projects BBS (608) 836-9473 SYSOP Power Board BBS (608) 222-8842