Ampro Corporation 5001451A manual Using a Standard PC Keyboard

!9600 baud

!No parity

!8 bits

!One stop bit

To use an ASCII terminal as the console device for your system, set the serial baud rate, parity, data length, and stop bits of the terminal to match the serial console settings. For proper display of Setup and POST messages from the BIOS, you must use an IEEE-compatible terminal or terminal emulation program that implements the standard ASCII cursor commands. The required commands and their hexadecimal codes are listed in Table 2-14.

Some Programs that emulate an ASCII terminal do not properly support the basic ASCII command functions shown in Table 2-14.Ampro provides a suitable PC terminal emulator program, TVTERM, on the Common Utilities diskette.

After booting this system, the keyboard and screen of the serial terminal become the system console.

Note

The programs you execute via the serial terminal must use ROM BIOS video functions (rather than direct screen addressing) for the display I/O. Some programs that emulate an ASCII terminal do not properly support the basic ASCII command functions shown in Table 2-14.Ampro provides a suitable PC terminal emulator program, TVTERM, on the Common Utilities diskette.

After booting this system, the keyboard and screen of the serial terminal become the system console. The programs you execute via the serial terminal must use ROM BIOS video functions (rather than direct screen addressing) for the display I/O.

Note

DOS programs that write directly to video RAM will not display properly on a serial console device.

	Table 2-14. Required Cursor Commands
Hex	Command
08	Backspace
0A	Line Feed
0B	Vertical Tab
0C	Non-destructive Space
0D	Carriage Return

Using a Standard PC Keyboard

If you have both a serial terminal and a standard keyboard attached to your system at the same time, both keyboards will function.

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