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                                                                   iac(7)



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        iac                                                  Special File
        Eclipse MV/family intelligent asynchronous controller
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        DESCRIPTION

        An iac is an intelligent asynchronous terminal I/O controller
        that controls a number of terminal lines.  The controllers
        supported are as follows:

             Model #     Name    # Lines   Lines with modem control
             4357,4359   IAC8    8         All
             4358,4360   IAC16   16        None
             4543        MCP1    8         0,1
             4560        LAC12   12        10,11
             5093        LMC8    8         All

        Intelligent controllers are actually processors that perform I/O
        processing according to the tty modes in effect for each line.
        It is necessary for the system administrator to load the iac
        resident code image into iac memory before lines controlled by
        the iac can be used (see iacload(1M)).

        Terminals controlled by iacs present the standard DG/UX terminal
        interfaces described in termio(7) and tty(7).  All model iacs
        support all specified baud rates, with the following restrictions
        and extensions.  Some older IAC8s and IAC16s cannot support 38400
        baud I/O, so for these older controllers, a request to select
        that baud rate is ignored.  For IAC8s and IAC16s, the driver-
        specific baud rates EXTA and EXTB are 50 and 75 baud,
        respectively.  For MCP1s and LAC12s, 38400 baud I/O is not
        supported; EXTA and EXTB correspond to baud rates of 75 and 2000,
        respectively.


        FILES

        /dev/tty*           Terminal device files


        SEE ALSO

        iacload(1M), termio(7), tty(7).  Intelligent Asynchronous
        Controller - Programmer's Reference Manual (014-000703).
        Eclipse MV/2000 DC Asynchronous Controller Programmer's Reference
        (014-001207)






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