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From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Thu Jan 25 17:49:15 2001

Mike asks about the Mac IIfx serial ports:
> The *nix problem are the 6502 controlled serial ports, I think. How
> hard could it be to write drivers or whatever to resolve the issue?

IIRC, A/UX has support for the IOPs. Other than that, the simplest thing
to do is put them in passthrough mode so that it acts like a normal Mac's
Z8530. There was a CDEV to do that for System 6.0.8 and probably 7.0.
It couldn't be too hard to disassemble it and figure out how it does
its magic.
Received on Thu Jan 25 2001 - 17:49:15 GMT