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- Subject: Re: Binary Sychronous Communication (2780)
- Date: 4 Sep 1992 21:39:53 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
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- In article <1992Sep4.165109.10091@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca> eastick@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Doug Eastick) writes:
- >
- >We are in the position of having to dial-up an IBM mainframe to pick up
- >some EDI documents. We'd like to use an intel x86 box. I know of a board
- >from Cleo Communications which will give us bisync and will work with
- >various DOS software communication packages.
- >
- >My question is this: does anyone know of any 386, UNIX-based or UNIX-like
- >OS's which support bisync communication?
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- 386BSD does not support bisync communications, but it would be trivial
- to do. However, that's not the important consideration. The key item is
- what you want to do with it. If you want to do a 2780 emulator, for example,
- that's a much larger project.
-
- >Also, how does Telebit's T2500 do SNA and bisync when there is only an
- >RS232 port? Hmm?
-
- They do serial communications and reinterpret the signals with a V.35
- single-ended interface. They're assuming you have a special board and
- cable set.
-
- Lynne Jolitz.
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