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- From: jkesling@shell.portal.com (John Darrell Kesling)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: GVP I/O zorro II card
- Date: 4 Mar 1996 00:42:31 GMT
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- J°rn Ove Nilsen (jornilse@telepost.no) wrote:
- >I've got this fabolous GVP I/O card with 2 RS-232 ports ,a paralell port and
- >finally a RS-422 port. I where wondering what this RS-422 port will do for me,
- >what kind of hardware can be connected to it? Maby somebodey even got some
- >technical specification for RS-422 out there to me? =)
-
- Can't help with the specifics for the GVP board but I can tell you
- what I remember about RS-422.
-
- I don't have any reference documentation here so this is from memory,
- if I goof up someone please correct me.
-
- RS-422 is a serial interface similar to RS-232. The biggest difference
- is that RS-422 uses two wires for every signal (example +txd -txd)
- while RS-232 uses a single wire for each signal with a common signal
- ground wire. With RS-422 the voltage difference between the two wires
- determines if the signal is active or not. This allows RS-422 to be
- used over very long runs of wire and in areas of high electromagnetic
- interference that would cause problems with RS-232. I believe the
- longest run suggested under EIA-232 (the final standard which developed
- from Recomended Standard RS-232) is 250 feet. RS-422 can be used for
- runs of several thousand feet.
-
- Usually RS-422 only uses txd and rxd (transmit and receive data) so
- handshaking must be of the xon xoff variety. Although some
- implementations do allow hardware handshaking as well, but remember
- that every signal requires two more wires.
-
- I don't know if there is a "standard" connector used for RS-422 or
- not. I seem to remember at least two or three different types of
- connectors on the RS-422 stuff I've worked with in the past, including
- DB-9, DB-25, and some really strange ones. A DB-9 would provide enough
- connections for transmit data, receive data, and two handshaking signals
- if the're implemented.
-
- Many devices are available with RS-422 interfaces, some of the more
- common are printers, terminals, and badge readers. Any RS-232 device
- you'd expect to find connected to a computer with more than 250 feet of
- wire will generally be available with an optional RS-422 interface
- as well.
-
- Hope this helps some,
- John
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