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07/26/05 12:45
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#98150 - that was not 8255
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Steve M. Taylor said:
In the same way, the fastest modern PC is still "based on the 82C55", because thats how the original PC speaker was driven.

That was 8253 (timer).
I think there was no 8255 in the PC.
Speaking of 8253, the first time I was burnt by the this-PC-is-not-PC syndrome was, when I tried to make a finer timing on PC by reading the timer's (which is still - even today - a kind of a 8253 implemented somewhere inside the chipset) registers. It worked fine on my PC (and many more), and I went happily with the program into production, until one day a complaint from field came (works intermittently). The outcome of a lengthy experimenting was, that reading the timer registers on this particular chipset sometimes (1-in-1000 or so) gave an erratic highest bit...

Jan Waclawek


List of 39 messages in thread
TopicAuthorDate
8255 interfacing problem            01/01/70 00:00      
   well..            01/01/70 00:00      
      8255 interface problem            01/01/70 00:00      
         If you must use 8255            01/01/70 00:00      
            My datasheet says.....            01/01/70 00:00      
   Settle Erik!            01/01/70 00:00      
      8255 problem            01/01/70 00:00      
         hardware            01/01/70 00:00      
            adding to Steve..            01/01/70 00:00      
            Comment            01/01/70 00:00      
               Relic            01/01/70 00:00      
                  that was not 8255            01/01/70 00:00      
                     Actually....            01/01/70 00:00      
                        ot: 825x in PC            01/01/70 00:00      
                           Parallel port            01/01/70 00:00      
                              NOoooooooooooooooooooo            01/01/70 00:00      
                                 Ooops            01/01/70 00:00      
                                    OK I give it up! :-)            01/01/70 00:00      
                                       Just like            01/01/70 00:00      
                                 8255 in original PC            01/01/70 00:00      
               If I did not keep up with the times and            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Do your kids drive Segway?            01/01/70 00:00      
                     the real problem is not that the 82xx is            01/01/70 00:00      
                        Erik - A history lesson            01/01/70 00:00      
                           ok, even further back            01/01/70 00:00      
                              Picky, picky            01/01/70 00:00      
                                 are we getting there now?            01/01/70 00:00      
                                    Oh altight then :-)            01/01/70 00:00      
         More info needed            01/01/70 00:00      
   Pull up resistors.            01/01/70 00:00      
      Pullups            01/01/70 00:00      
   no can do            01/01/70 00:00      
      Yes he can!            01/01/70 00:00      
         does not make it current            01/01/70 00:00      
            my opinion...            01/01/70 00:00      
               did you not read            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Nope            01/01/70 00:00      
   8255 PROBLEM            01/01/70 00:00      
      10 Points            01/01/70 00:00      

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