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From: bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein)
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Subject: TCP/IP terminal concentrators
Message-ID: <890@bu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 4-Jul-86 11:50:54 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  4 11:50:54 1986
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Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci.
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Besides the Bridge TCP/IP terminal concentrators you might want to
compare the Annex made by Encore Computers (Something, Mass.)
I don't know much about the Bridge, I hear they are good, we got
involved with the Annex when we got an Encore/MultiMax. The Annex has
16-ports, uses either rlogin or telnet, can listen to rwho packets
(is that right? I'm pretty sure) to build its own host table or you
can just set things up yourself. It requires software on a host to
download it (it's written in C, we ported it to a SUN/3 in about
30 minutes, should work on any reasonable 4.2 system, they've already
ported it to a number of systems, I think all we had to do was fix
a minor portability glitch for them which they took back.)

They also have some project that should be available soon to front-end
to GNU Emacs in the Annex box, ask them.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University

Disclaimer: if I worked for Encore I probably wouldn't spend all this
time in news :-)