DECServer 90L+ startup help

From: Witchy <witchy_at_binarydinosaurs.co.uk>
Date: Mon Dec 29 09:05:08 2003

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Lawson [mailto:jpl15_at_panix.com]
> Sent: 29 December 2003 02:12
> To: witchy_at_binarydinosaurs.co.uk; General Discussion: On-Topic and
> Off-Topic Posts
> Subject: RE: DECServer 90L+ startup help
>
> Ah. Rats!! So I cannot hook terminals X1, X2, Xn to one 90L+; thence via
> (properly terminated) RG /58 50 ohm coax to the second 90L+ with the
> corresponding serial ports hooked to Machine Ports Y1, Y2, Yn...

Nope. You need a minimum of a 90TL do to that. 90L+'s were brilliant for
small companies that needed terminal access out of the box with pretty much
no configuration other than maybe setting up a port to be a printer port and
the baud rates.

> What I understand now is that the 90L+ is "single-ended" device that
> expects some server-thingy / software on the other end of the Thinwire...?

LAT. It's a very small footprint server service that presents the machines
its running on as connectable resources with ratings based on how loaded a
particular machine is. It only does terminal access and printers and wasn't
really designed for large networks, though we did manage it on occasion :)

Remote disk access that was available through the Infoserver was done using
the LAD/LAST protocol, which was also how the original versions of Pathworks
(PCSA?) worked before they moved onto the SMB protocol.

Aah, happy days with PCSA. Not.

cheers

w
Received on Mon Dec 29 2003 - 09:05:08 GMT