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From: dncar@dcatla.UUCP (Chris A. Roussel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: term pgm on DG1
Message-ID: <12894@dcatla.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 89 16:07:50 GMT
References: <42900030@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu> <3185@cloud9.Stratus.COM>
Reply-To: dncar@sund.UUCP (Chris A. Roussel)
Organization: DCA Inc., Alpharetta, GA
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In article <3185@cloud9.Stratus.COM> dts@cloud9.Stratus.COM (Daniel Senie) writes:
>
>DG for some reason decided not to use an 8250 or NS16450 compatible UART
>in the DG1. Since most comm programs bypass the BIOS, they have trouble
>talking to the UART.
>
I worked on a comm program for this machine when it first came out.
Seems as I remember that the serial port was not always powered.
You had to twiddle some IO port to power it on, if you wanted to write to it.
Don't know if that's changed since then.  Don't remember the IO address
either.

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