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- From: adh@cbnews.cb.att.com (andrew.d.hay)
- Subject: Re: I need more serial ports!! (Sun ELC)
- Organization: guess
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:07:55 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.160755.26869@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <lmcpqtINNrm8@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
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- lra@caribou.Eng.Sun.COM (Larry Ader) writes:
- "
- "I have a Sun ELC at home and am in desperate need of more serial ports.
- []
- "To me, this solution is not elegant (or convenient). What I'm wondering,
- "is what others of you have done when you ran out of serial ports. I have
- "heard of terminal servers and am wondering how well these work. Do you
- "have any recommendations? I obviously need something that attaches over
- "ethernet or the SCSI bus.
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- not necessarily. it's hardly any cheaper, but you can run x.25 over
- the serial ports [sun has a driver] into a pad [packet
- assembler/disassembler] with asynch. serial ports -- i've seen pads
- with 8 and 16 lines...
-
- in general, i think you'll find meeting your price goal quite
- challenging. ;^<
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- Andrew Hay | one step beyond the outer limits of the twilight |
- a_d_hay@att.com | zone in the darkened room at the night gallery |
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