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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Multiserial cards & FreeBSD
Date: 28 Dec 1995 11:21:44 +0100
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(Cc sent to Lawrence.)

Lawrence "The Dreamer" Chen <lawrence@combdyn.com> wrote:

> I'm setting up a multiline system on FreeBSD.  The original plan was
> to buy a terminal server to handle the modems, but I'm not getting
> as much money as I had planned on.  So, incase I can't get a
> terminal server to fit the budget...  is anybody running a bunch of
> multiserial cards (IE: 3 STB 4 COM boards with shared IRQ).  How
> well would this work?

sax.sax.de runs fine with a Boca 2016 16-port card on a 486/40.  It
doesn't seem to be the easiest part to actually get one however.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)