Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron E-Mail Hack) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: Terminal servers over ethernet? Message-ID: <9816@e.ms.uky.edu> Date: 1 Jul 88 22:05:05 GMT References: <320@ucrmath.UUCP> <3960@saturn.ucsc.edu> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron E-Mail Hack) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 30 We're looking for terminal servers too. You wouldn't believe the thing that we're replacing, but it *does* work. Anyway. For some reason one of the ideas around here is that LAT based servers (We'll be talking to Ultrix machines -- for some reason we're ignoring the existance of a Sequent and Suns and 3b2's) will be "better" in some way than a box providing TELNET type service. Probably it's simply a matter of general inexperience on campus with this sort of box. *I* don't want to get a LAT box because it would tie us too closely with DEC. Be that as it may. Do any of these boxes sufficiently emulate being hardwired that one can believe that they're hardwired? I know that with a real hardwired terminal, that the 4.3bsd rlogin works well/fast enough that if "feels" like it's a hardwired terminal. So *I* am ready to believe that one of these boxes doing rlogin would "feel" right. The problem is convincing the others around me. Just for jollies, do any of the 3rd party boxes support LAT? I've been saving away messages about terminal servers for a long time, so y'all don't need to give me any general information. Thanx for any help y'all can provide me.. -- <---- David Herron -- The E-Mail guy <---- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <---- <---- I'm not bad, I'm just coded that way!