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Subject: Encore Annex or Bridge Terminal Server
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Date: Sat, 15-Nov-86 13:07:00 EST
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Subject: Encore Annex or Bridge Terminal Server ?
Reply-To: mike@yetti.UUCP (Mike Clarkson )
Organization: York U. Computer Science


We have a Sun 160  to which we would like to add about 10 terminals lines.
The Sun is mainly a file server for 3 3/50's, and the amount of use of
the terminal ports is expected to be light.  There are other machines on the
Ethernet that I would like to reach with the terminals, but I could always
log into the Sun first, and then Telnet or whatever across the ethernet.

1)      What do I lose by putting my terminals on the ethernet?  For example,
will ^O ^S ^Q all get gobbled rather than passed to Emacs for instance.
Will a terminal server on the ethernet affect paging from the Sun 50's to
the Sun 160?

2)      Besides flexibilty, what do I gain by having my terminals on the
ethernet?  Performance?  Would I be better off with an ALM on the VME bus?

3)      What advantages does the Encore Annex have over the Bridge boxes?
I would love to hear from anyone who has one.

4)      Does anyone have the phone number for Encore?  I have the Bridge info.

E-mail to me, and I'll summarize to the net.

Mike Clarkson, yetti!mike.UUCP


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