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From: ridder@elvira.enet.dec.com (Hans Ridder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 2000 serial problems
Keywords: 2000, serial
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Date: 8 Jan 90 20:21:49 GMT
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In article <31@image.UUCP> brom@image.UUCP (Manuel Steudtner) writes:
>In article <4503@ur-cc.UUCP>, gest_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Gavin Stark) writes:
>> I have heard that Commodore-Amiga had put out a batch of 2000s that had a 
>> faulty chip in the serial port handler.
>
>Since all the Ports in an Amiga are controlled by these 8520 chips, which have
>to to all the i/o, it is rather unlikely that C= has produced a series of
>a2000 which cause problems with thier serial port.

Not exactly.  The Amiga serial port functions are split between two
chips.  The data lines are handled by a custom chip (Paula, I think),
and one of the 8520's handles the modem control.  Either way, I
haven't heard anything about bad custom chips either.

-hans
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