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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: X11R4 for i386 Unix
Message-ID: <1218@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jun 90 17:43:20 GMT
References: <1990Jun22.211741.979@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu> <1990Jun23.015312.9456@virtech.uucp> <4605@infmx.UUCP>
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In article <4605@infmx.UUCP> aland@infmx.UUCP (alan denney) writes:

| AT&T's own SV386 R3.2.2 supports console operation over either serial
| port.  The feature is referred to as Alternate/Remote Console.  You
| can enable Alternate console (COM2, e.g. terminal) or Remote console
| (COM1, e.g. a modem to a remote terminal) via a kernel parameter.
| If you boot without a monitor attached, it supposedly switches the
| console to COM2 automatically.

  I'm helping evaluate o/s for a series of remote industrial control
boxes running some flavor of unix or Xenix. Most of these will be
accessed by dial-up phone and SL/IP. Some may be ethernet. None will
have any form of local display.

  Needless to say I'm following this thread closely.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
    moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me