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Many Sun cpu serial ports can be configured as either RS-232 (+/- 12V) or RS-423 (+/- 5V). It has moved to SunHELP as of May 2005, send all updates to Bill Bradford. This content was originally created, collected, and maintained by Stokely Consulting. UNIX Serial Port Resources – Serial Port & Cable Pinouts

Serial port pinout computer db9