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- From: scotto@ipars.cts.com (Scott O'Connell)
- Subject: Re: Multiport Boards
- Organization: Spectrum Data Services - Carlsbad, CA
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 08:08:30 GMT
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- John Summers (John.Summers@launchpad.unc.edu) wrote:
- : Our department is looking for other suggestions for a multiport board to
- : be used with the following system.
- :
- : Hardware: Bull DPX-2 150 (intel 486 system)
- : OP Sys : SCO Unix, Version 3.3.2
-
- I have been using the Equinox MegaPort board for about 3 years. I've
- installed about 15 of them and had 1 port fail. The biggest problem with
- the MegaPort is that to have full hardware flow control you must "steal"
- control signals from and adjacent port.
-
- To solve this problem I have recently started using DigiBoard products
- which appear to be everything I wanted in a multiport board. No track
- record on port problems, yet.
-
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