Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!usc!rutgers!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!unmvax!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben From: ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Serial Port, SYNC mode? Message-ID: Date: 8 Oct 90 02:07:52 GMT References: <2024@jimi.cs.unlv.edu> <1277@tardis.Tymnet.COM> Lines: 21 >In article <1277@tardis.Tymnet.COM> jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes: >In article <2024@jimi.cs.unlv.edu> maniac@lil-ed.cs.unlv.edu (Eric J. Schwertfeger) writes: >> Can the standard amiga serial port, either through >>the serial.device, or through direct hardware access, do >>8 bit syncronous transfers, with no start or stop bits? [details from the hardware RKM deleted] > >The Amiga's built-in serial port does not support sync. > If I remember right, there's a serial port of sorts on each of the CIA's. One is used for the keyboard, the other comes out as one of the pins on the parallel port. Is it possible to program these to run in syncronous mode? -- | ben@epmooch.UUCP (Ben Mesander) | "Cash is more important than | | ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu | your mother." - Al Shugart, | | !chinet!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben | CEO, Seagate Technologies |