DEC Pro
owners: does the DEC Professional use a straight-thru serial
cable, or null?
It's communication port is DCE. And the printer is DTE.
What are you connecting?
Wiring up to a Linux box. Going to do some SLIP experiments with Venix.
Anything special about the wiring required?
I think you'll need a NULL modem, assuming it's like the SEC Rainbow I have in
the basement. At least that's what I use for connecting it to my FreeBSD
system. You'll likely need hardware flow control signals too and config. But
I've not used the Pro, but Venix has a special serial driver. And i thought
Venix didn't have TCP/IP.
It doesn't, this is a user-mode experiment I'm working on (a very basic stack
for Venix/PRO through Slirp). I'll try a null-modem cable on it first. Thanks!
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