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Title: Amiga 2000 serial chips. What do they do?
Post by: Rowbeartoe on May 18, 2008, 08:15:59 PM

Hello everyone.  I'm reading an old Amiga World magazine review of the Amiga 2000.  Great picture of the motherboard.  I was able to go to wikipedia to get a real good understanding of the Amiga custom chips, but what do the 2 serial chips do?  It seemed as if if the custom chips did just about everything.

Thank you.

Robert.

Title: Re: Amiga 2000 serial chips. What do they do?
Post by: Kronos on May 18, 2008, 08:43:49 PM

Serial chips ????

I assume you mean the 2 CIAs, which both have one serial and one parallel port.

One is controlling the PAR-port and the KBD (serial), while the other has the SER-port and the floppy-port (parallel and in coworks with Paula).

Title: Re: Amiga 2000 serial chips. What do they do?
Post by: Rowbeartoe on May 18, 2008, 08:58:18 PM

Thank you.  =)

Title: Re: Amiga 2000 serial chips. What do they do?
Post by: amigadave on May 18, 2008, 10:38:03 PM

@Kronos,

Nice, short, accurate answer. :-)