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Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: need speech output
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Date: 10 Oct 88 22:29:00 GMT
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Written  9:49 pm  Oct  5, 1988 by spdcc.UUCP!dyer in cpe:comp.unix.xenix
>It is possible to run SCO XENIX without using the video subsystem
>as the console.  You just have to put the right keywords in
>/etc/default/boot.
>
>So, you could use a DECtalk or Type-n-talk attached to the
>serial COM1 or COM2 and use it as the system console.

Does a Type-n-talk give you a keyboard and a speech synthesis box
(as the name implies it does)?

I had considered the serial console as a possibility but with the
box he currently has he wouldn't be able to input anything.

			Paul Chamberlain
			Computer Product Engineering, Tandy Corp.
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