On 2018-10-31 18:25, Tom Manos via cctalk wrote: > I have a couple of these as well. The one to have way back when was made by > AST. It had 4 16550 UARTS and could run them all at whatever speed you > wanted. > > There was even a public domain program/device driver for it, for UNIX on > x86 called FAS (Final Async Solution) that worked very well. I still have a > copy of it if anyone is running real serial on period hardware and SVR2/3 > and maybe others. > > I ran these boards for a couple years on my public access UNIX system.
We had those in every PC in the office. There were versions with 4 or 8 UARTs, IIRC, four UARTs had to share one interrupt, but the Linux/ESIX/Interactive driver for them was working pretty well ... Made PCs suddenly useful ;-)
