[comp.sys.m6809] OS9 Acia parameters.

mbm@cs.nott.ac.uk (Mike Miller) (01/13/89)

Can any OS9 users tell me how to configure a 6551 Acia using the xmode command.
I believe the parameters that need to be set are:
  type=<Hex number>
  baud=<Decimal number>
 I have had the RS-232 working from outside OS9, so I know that the physical
connections are correct. The system I am using is the Eurohard License of OS9
for the Dragon 64. I have data for the 6551s internal registers, but I can't
get the interface to work setting the parameters thus:
  type -> Control register
  most significant nibble of baud -> Command register
 Any help appreciated. Thanks.
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mbm@cs.nott.ac.uk (Mike Miller) (01/13/89)

Can any OS9 users tell me how to configure a 6551 Acia using the xmode command.
I believe the parameters that need to be set are:
  type=<Hex number>
  baud=<Decimal number>
 I have had the RS-232 working from outside OS9, so I know that the physical
connections are correct. The system I am using is the Eurohard License of OS9
for the Dragon 64. I have data for the 6551s internal registers, but I can't
get the interface to work setting the parameters thus:
  type -> Control register
  most significant nibble of baud -> Command register
 Any help appreciated. Thanks.
+-------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
| |\ |\  . |   _    | Why are there 1001 reasonable ways to wire an RS-232    |
| | \| \ | |/ /_\   | cable, 1001 of which are completely and utterly wrong?  |
| |     \| |\ \_    |                                                         |
+-------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
| Mike Miller, UG, Dep. Computer Science, Nottingham University, NG7 2RD.     |
| JANET: mbm@Cs.Nott.AC.UK  FIDONET: Mike Miller @ Node 2:257/11 (BBS09 HST)  |
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