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Article #6262Re: Sparcstation serial port
From: Duke of Canterbury
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 06:09
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 06:09
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mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes: : Can anyone tell me anything about the internal circuitry of the serial : port in a Sparcstation? the two on-board serial ports, known as ttya and tyb, use a Zilog 8530 UART and 5170/5180 driver/receiver chips. : Also, am I right in thinking Sparcstation serial ports output + and - 5 V : rather than the usual 9 to 12 volts on an RS-232 port? Yes, we use RS-423 (not RS-422). mike
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!male.EBay.Sun.COM!exodus.Eng.Sun.COM!appserv.Eng.Sun.COM!oobleck!bender From: bender@oobleck (Duke of Canterbury) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: Re: Sparcstation serial port Date: 10 Sep 1992 06:09:38 GMT Organization: SPARK's R US Lines: 13 Distribution: usa Message-ID: <latpl2INN2rv@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> References: <1992Sep9.203550.25943@athena.cs.uga.edu> Reply-To: bender@oobleck.eng.sun.com NNTP-Posting-Host: oobleck X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3