On 07/17/2012 03:12 AM, Erik Fair wrote:
Not sure if this adds any wisdom, but I have a Microvax II with serial adapters, using screen + script + tip. Its been running for ~15 years, may benefit from an update, 12 years since last time.For those of us who run computer systems with serial consoles, how do you handle the "terminal" side of that? Console server? Lots of old TTYs, LA-120's? Terminal server? A custom configuration? Lots of PC laptoys running PuTTY, Kermit, or "tip/cu"? Yes, this is a survey. I'd like to collect the experience/wisdom available here.
NetBSD 1.4ZA (SKORPAN) #0: Tue Jun 6 21:06:11 CEST 2000 ragge@bakfull:/usr/home/ragge/work/nbsd/sys/arch/vax/compile/SKORPAN MicroVAX II total memory = 13300 KB avail memory = 10228 KB using 191 buffers containing 764 KB of memory mainbus0 (root) ibus0 at mainbus0 uba0 at ibus0: Q22 dhu0 at uba0 csr 160440 vec 320 ipl 17 dhu0: rom(1) version 2 rom(0) version 2 dhu0: DHV-11 dhu1 at uba0 csr 160040 vec 300 ipl 17 dhu1: rom(1) version 2 rom(0) version 2 dhu1: DHV-11 ... -- Ragge