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- From: heilpern@microware.com (Mark Heilpern)
- Subject: Re: Ironics VMEbus Serial Card
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.224307.13137@microware.com>
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- Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa
- References: <kdarling.722249448@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:43:07 GMT
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- In article <kdarling.722249448@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu> kdarling@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes:
- >Hi all. I don't have literature on it yet, but does anyone have
- >experience with an intelligent 16-port serial card from Ironics?
- >
- >This particular card is supposed to have a 68030 onboard running
- >OS-9, and I believe you can download small control programs to it.
- >
- Hi Kevin! The card you mention is the Ironics IV-3234, with a 20MHz 68EC030.
- (The EC means no mmu.) OS-9 was running on it fairly well when I worked
- for Ironics last May. The bootup procedure (if booting from disk) is a
- little untraditional, but it works o.k. Like any OS-9 system, you can
- download programs via one of the serial connections.
-
- (Actually, there are 18 serial I/O ports! 16 of them are controlled by an
- intelligent controller, I can't recall what, and the other two are built in
- to the VIC chip (Vme Interface Chip.)
-
- Currently, I hear they are making OS9-Net for that card, in the RAMNET
- version. This means you can have two cards running OS9, say the 3234 as a
- slave, and the master (say an Ironics IV-3206) can remotely boot up the
- slave, and have access to all of its devices, and vice-versa.
-
- Feel free to ask me anything else. (I don't have a manual anymore, but
- Ironics has usually been pretty free about sending them out.)
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