24 Apr
2006
24 Apr
'06
2:09 p.m.
Jay West wrote:
But... if you are wanting to hook up terminals to a
host computer
that DOES have an ethernet port and speaks TCP/IP (which rules out
most of the stuff in my collection anyways), then you're right, a
terminal server is what you want.
The later DEC terminal servers (many of them, at least) could be
used several ways.
They could provide a "network-accessible" RS232 interface that
you could plug into your machine's serial port, so you could
connect to a machine's console or to a printer or such like.
Or you could plug your terminal into a terminal server port
and talk to any ethernet-capable machine that spoke the relevant
protocols (LAT or telnet).
Antonio
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Antonio carlini
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