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Serial Parallel Controller User’s Guide—February 1993
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Features
The Serial Parallel Controller offers the following features:
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Single-width SBus card requiring one SBus slot.
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Eight serial ports (RS-423 or RS-232 compliant, selectable by jumper blocks
on your card).
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One unidirectional Centronics-compatible printer port.
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Support for SBus-based Desktop and Deskside SPARCsystems.
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Device driver installation and configuration scripts.
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Independently programmable baud rates and port configuration.
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SBus programmed input/output interface.
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Baud rate of 50 to 38.4 k baud.
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Less than 0.01% error rate across all baud rates.
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135 k baud total throughput, using flow control.
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Clear-to-Send/Request-to-Send (CTS/RTS), Data-Terminal-Ready (DTR),
Data-Carrier-Detect (DCD), and Data-Set-Ready (DSR) modem controls on
all serial ports.
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Support for Hayes-compatible modems.
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FCC Class B compliancy, for home use.
Note – Serial Parallel Controller does not support Ring Indicator (RI). RI is a
defined EIA RS-232 input signal.
Release Information
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This manual assumes operation under Solaris 2.1 (SunOS 5.1) or Solaris 2.2..
Information regarding operation under Solaris 1.x (SunOS 4.x) is included in
case you happen to be using that operating system release.
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Release 1.0 of the Serial Parallel Controller card hardware (P/N F501-1511)
will work with release 1.0 or greater of the Serial Parallel Controller card
software.
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Release 1.1 or greater of the Serial Parallel Controller card hardware (P/N
F501-1931) must be used with release 1.1 or greater of the Serial Parallel
Controller card software.
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