Its referring to the UART device, which was originally the National INS8250
(which is embedded and miniaturized in your PDA, because the chip itself
was about the size of your PDA).

Do a google search for INS8250. Tha's what it meant to say.

--Bob


At 10:29 AM 8/23/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>I am trying to find out how to control one of the serial port lines on my PDA.
>
>It isn't the regular Receive or Transmitt lines, but rather dts and cts,
>or something like that.
>
>Here is a piece I got from a PDA forum and I was hoping someone could
>clirify what it means:
>
>"the PV [Pocket Viewer] uses a pretty standard 8050 for it's serial
>communication. The base adress is 0x96, so port 0x9A holds the modem
>control register with bit 0 as DTR and bit 1 as RTS.
>
>Don't forget to first read the register, then OR your mask and then write
>it back."
>
>The biggest problem I have is what is an 8050?
>
>If I knew what that was maybe I could figure this out.
>
>Thanks for any help.
>
>John
>
>
>
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