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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2016-06-03 kl. 12:30, skrev VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG:
> 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.
>


Why TCP/IP instead of LAT? Is that a joke? Do I realy need to
tell *you* that? But OK, for everyone else then...

- LAT is not routable. You are restricted to the local LAN (subnet).
- PuTTY (and many other emulators) does not support LAT.
- You will probably find TCP/IP by default on more (client) platforms.

Both the first and the second are enough as show-stoppers, of course.

Jan-Erik.