[5496] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother))
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Dixon)
Mon Oct 21 18:34:43 1996
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 16:26:16 +0100 (BST)
From: Jim Dixon <jdd@vbc.net>
To: Alexis Rosen <alexis@panix.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199610211104.HAA07378@panix.com>
On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Alexis Rosen wrote:
> There's another better solution. It would take a little bit more work but
> it would be infinitely more useful: Build an ISA card that looks like an
> MDA adapter, but which sends output to a VT100. (A simple algorithm will
> produce good results here even when the cursor jumps all over the place.)
> You also need a gizmo (one exists alread) that makes serial input look like
> PC keyboard scan codes. And lastly, you need to special-case a long-break
> so that it causes the ISA card to reset the machine.
We have been looking for something like this for a while; if no one
else has such a product, we will make it ourselves.
> it, as would the millions of poor souls who run Novell, SCO, etc.) I'd
> buy fifty of them at $100 apiece, and at that price you'd probably see
OK, we will consider this an order. ;-)
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