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- From: ron@zooid.guild.org (Secret Mud)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Dumb terminals to Coherent?
- Message-ID: <712326520.6911@zooid.guild.org>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 12:28:40 GMT
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- From: messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk)
- >
- >Since the knowledgable fellow netters helped me out with one question,
- >I will risk another:
- >
- >I would like to connect four (or more) dumb terminals to one 386 running
- >Coherent. Can it be done? Inexpensively? Is there a support for it?
- >What would I need to do - get some kind of multiplexers? Anyone has
- >tried it?
- >
- >Thanks,
- >
- >Tony
-
- You could connect four terminals using Com1-4 using two cheap serial cards.
- The only problem is that two of the ports would have to use polling drivers,
- and those seem to drain a lot of power out of the box. (Not suprising.)
-
- - Ron Sharp.
-