Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!world!unixland!bill
From: bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: ESIX Manuals, serial drivers
Keywords: manuals serial drivers uucp
Message-ID: <1990Dec12.031911.24580@unixland.uucp>
Date: 12 Dec 90 03:19:11 GMT
References: <1990Dec6.040153.473@bjm.wimsey.bc.ca>
Organization: The Think_Tank BBS & Public Access Unix
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In article <1990Dec6.040153.473@bjm.wimsey.bc.ca> brian@bjm.wimsey.bc.ca (brian) writes:
>	I just got ESIX REV D. and to my surprise the documentation is on 
>the severely lacking side.  My inquiries lead me to believe the manuals are
>$142 each (whewww!) or ~$600 for a "set of tech. documentation" (what ever 
>the hell that includes, I don't know).

You can get the full documentation set for around $329 or so!  I'd suggest
getting the Esix set, rather than the Prentice Hall releases -- that way
you won't miss the Esix-specific stuff.

>	I was having a lot of trouble getting the vanilla port to "uucico"
>without alarming!!  I found out (by reading the release notes) that uucp's
>maximum throughput on ESIX's serial driver is no more than 4800 baud!!

HUH?????

Remote     K-Bytes   K-Bytes   K-Bytes  Hours  Hours AvCPS AvCPS    #    #
SiteName      Recv      Xmit     Total   Recv   Xmit  Recv  Xmit Recv Xmit
-------- --------- --------- --------- ------ ------ ----- ----- ---- ----
world    10384.933    10.050 10394.983   2.60   0.00  1111  1573  366   10

And this is LOW too -- usually it's around 1250 - 1300 on receiving.
This is using a T2500-T2500 connection.  I'm running Esix Rev D.



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