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34.Dd August 30, 1994
35.Dt SER 4 amiga
36.Os
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm ser
39.Nd
40.Tn Amiga 8520
41serial communications interface
42.Sh SYNOPSIS
43.Cd "ser0 at mainbus0"
44.Sh DESCRIPTION
45The
46.Tn Amiga 8520
47controls, among other things, a single port
48.Tn EIA
49.Tn RS-232C
50.Pf ( Tn CCITT
51.Tn V.28 )
52communications interface with a single character buffer.
53Such an interface is built-in to all Amiga machines.
54.Pp
55Input and output for each line may set to one of following baud rates;
5650, 75, 110, 134.5, 150, 300, 600, 1200, 1800, 2400, 4800, 9600,
5719200, 38400, 57600 or 76800.
58.Sh FILES
59.Bl -tag -width Pa
60.It Pa /dev/tty00
61.El
62.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
63.Bl -diag
64.It ser0: silo overflow.
65The single-character input
66.Dq silo
67has overflowed and incoming data has been lost.
68.It ser0: %d ring buffer overflows.
69The software based input ring buffer
70has overflowed %d times and incoming data has been lost.
71.El
72.Sh SEE ALSO
73.Xr tty 4
74.Sh HISTORY
75The
76.Tn Amiga
77.Nm
78device first appeared in
79.Nx 1.0
80.Sh BUGS
81Data loss is possible on busy systems with baud rates greater than 300.
82