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- From: Hans Ridder <ridder@zso.dec.com>
- Subject: Re: Internal Serial Port.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.172053.26822@ninja.zso.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - DECwest Engineering
- References: <1992Jul20.212418.1@acad3.alaska.edu>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 17:20:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul20.212418.1@acad3.alaska.edu> fspck@acad3.alaska.edu writes:
-
- >Ok, looking through the schematics of my 2500 the other day, I noticed
- >something. I am sure you guys may have seen it. The internal serial
- >port. I shows that it is connected to the external serial and the
- >8520.
-
- Yes.
-
- >With this in my machine, woudl it be possible to write a driver for it,
- >and put another (in essence) serial port on my machine.
-
- You certainly can write a driver for it, if you want. But it won't give
- you another serial port. Look at that schematic again. That connector
- is wired in parallel to the DB25 on the back of the machine. It would
- have to be wired to it's own UART to provide another port. That
- connector is there to allow internal cards/devices/accesories access to
- the one and only (asynchronous) serial port in your Amiga.
-
- -hans
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- Hans-Gabriel Ridder Digital DECwest Engineering
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