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mvme188(7)  —  SPECIAL FILES AND DEVICES

NAME

mvme188 − MVME188 CPU

DESCRIPTION

The mvme188 is a CPU platform which consists of: one, two, or four MC88100 MPUs, two, four, or eight MC88200 CMMUs, between 16 MB and 128 MB of dual-ported onboard DRAM, 2 KB of battery backup RAM, configurable local and VMEbus address maps, two RS-232C serial communications ports driven by a 68692 DUART, four programmable timers, a battery backup real-time clock/calendar, and 512 KB of firmware containing the MVME188BUG Debugger and Diagnostic Package. 

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS

The bus snooper(s) and data/code CMMU parity detection are enabled.  The timer on the 68682 DUART is used as the system time base. 

FILES

/dev/conctl
/dev/console
/dev/contty
/dev/contty??
/dev/nvr∗

SEE ALSO

dcon(1M), mvmecpu(1M), console(7), nvram(7)
MVME188BUG Debugging Package User’s Manual
MVME188 VMEmodule RISC Microcomputer User’s Manual

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