29 Dec
2003
29 Dec
'03
1:05 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: John Lawson [mailto:jpl15@panix.com]
Sent: 29 December 2003 02:12
To: witchy(a)binarydinosaurs.co.uk; General Discussion: On-Topic and
Off-Topic Posts
Subject: RE: DECServer 90L+ startup help
Ah. Rats!! So I cannot hook terminals X1, X2, Xn to one 90L+; thence via
(properly terminated) RG /58 50 ohm coax to the second 90L+ with the
corresponding serial ports hooked to Machine Ports Y1, Y2, Yn...
Nope. You need a minimum of a 90TL do to that. 90L+'s were brilliant for
small companies that needed terminal access out of the box with pretty much
no configuration other than maybe setting up a port to be a printer port and
the baud rates.
What I understand now is that the 90L+ is
"single-ended" device that
expects some server-thingy / software on the other end of the Thinwire...?
LAT. It's a very small footprint server service that presents the machines
its running on as connectable resources with ratings based on how loaded a
particular machine is. It only does terminal access and printers and wasn't
really designed for large networks, though we did manage it on occasion :)
Remote disk access that was available through the Infoserver was done using
the LAD/LAST protocol, which was also how the original versions of Pathworks
(PCSA?) worked before they moved onto the SMB protocol.
Aah, happy days with PCSA. Not.
cheers
w