[Info-vax] USB/DB9 terminal converter for RX2660

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Fri Jun 3 06:30:07 EDT 2016


In article <nirchj$5u7$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>Den 2016-06-03 kl. 05:06, skrev Steven Schweda:
>>> I'm not 100% sure what you are trying, [...]
>>
>>    I'm with him.  Around here, most of the simple-minded
>> (serial) system consoles (HP PA-RISC workstation, HP zx2000,
>> Sun workstation, VAX, XP1000, ...) are connected to DECserver
>> terminal server ports, which can be reached by LAT from my
>> main Alpha system.  (I haven't tried it, but I suspect that I
>> could arrange to use Telnet for that part, too.)
>
>Yes, if you have a DECserver new enough to have TCPIP. You do
>not say, and I don't going to guess, but if it has TCPIP you
>simply connect to the IP address of the server and to the
>IP port number of the actual serial port.

Why TCP/IP?  I connect to services from linhx via LAT.  There's LAT available for linux; 
I've not bothered looking into it for Mac as there are already way too many problems in
Mac OSX -- especially, el crapitan -- to bother.

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