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Subject: Re: Re: TCP/IP terminal concentrators
Message-ID: <2529@diku.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Jul-86 13:55:46 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 15 13:55:46 1986
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In article <12236@amdcad.UUCP> phil@amdcad.UUCP writes:
>In article <890@bu-cs.UUCP> bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) writes:

	.
	. Various comments on Annex
	.

>>It [Annex] 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

>This is an advantage. Much better than running around updating forty
>or fifty floppies like the CS100 requires. (We don't have Ethernet
>terminal servers in large scale use but when we do we'll have that
>many to maintain.)

If you have non diskbased cs100 with a NCS150 control server, you will
only need one copy of the software for cs100's or cs1's on the
network.

But still, you have little control over booting a box, and it would be
nice to have the Bridge boxes to try various boot servers on failure,
like the primary and secondary nameserver method.

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