smart serial boards

[Phil Hughes]

In article <212 at zycor.UUCP>, bill at zycor.UUCP (bill) writes:
> 
> There has been a lot of talk lately about how so-and-so can run N
> users on their 386 using smart serial boards. So my question is
> simply what boards people prefer to use. I know about Digiboards,
> but what others are available? Price? Please e-mail me your 
> preferences, etc. Thanx.

Arnet:
	SmartPort	8-ports, about $1000
	Decent performance (we have a couple of trailblazers on
	it right now and it doesn't die).  Hardware guaranteed
	forever.  We have been using Arnet stuff for years and
	it is very reliable.

Stargate:
	ACL		8-ports, don't know price
	Slower than the Arnet stuff but I haven't made any serious
	measurements.  We have this on a system in our classroom and
	it has worked fine (except for the first Unix for Programmers
	class where a student created a shell script called load
	and tried to run it.  All comm crashed.  Turns out that the
	Stargate install script puts the download program for the
	board in /usr/bin, calls it load and makes it executable
	for anyone.  Oh well.)
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