on-board serial lines

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From: Ruth Milner
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1990 23:38

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I seem to remember from somewhere that the two on-board serial ports on a
Sun CPU (the ones driven by the Zilog chips) are interrupt-per- character
lines. Is this still the case for the new high-end server systems such as
the 4/490? Are they still Zilog-driven as well?

Thank you.
Ruth Milner                    NRAO/VLA       rmilner@cholla.aoc.nrao.edu

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