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38.Dd August 30, 1994
39.Dt SER 4 amiga
40.Os
41.Sh NAME
42.Nm ser
43.Nd
44.Tn Amiga 8520
45serial communications interface
46.Sh SYNOPSIS
47.Cd "ser0 at mainbus0"
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49The
50.Tn Amiga 8520
51controls, among other things, a single port
52.Tn EIA
53.Tn RS-232C
54.Pf ( Tn CCITT
55.Tn V.28 )
56communications interface with a single character buffer.
57Such an interface is built-in to all Amiga machines.
58.Pp
59Input and output for each line may set to one of following baud rates;
6050, 75, 110, 134.5, 150, 300, 600, 1200, 1800, 2400, 4800, 9600,
6119200, 38400, 57600 or 76800.
62.Sh FILES
63.Bl -tag -width Pa
64.It Pa /dev/tty00
65.El
66.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
67.Bl -diag
68.It ser0: silo overflow.
69The single-character input
70.Dq silo
71has overflowed and incoming data has been lost.
72.It ser0: %d ring buffer overflows.
73The software based input ring buffer
74has overflowed %d times and incoming data has been lost.
75.El
76.Sh SEE ALSO
77.Xr tty 4
78.Sh HISTORY
79The
80.Tn Amiga
81.Nm
82device first appeared in
83.Nx 1.0
84.Sh BUGS
85Data loss is possible on busy systems with baud rates greater than 300.
86