On Tue, 18 Jun 1996 mika@cs.caltech.edu wrote:

// Yeppers, spent this weekend figuring it out. You need to assert CTS/RTS
// or whatever on the port for it to work (at least on our machines..
// Intel MB 120 MHz Pentiums)--even though the kernel boots fine without
// the handshake, the bootblocks still seem to require this (anyone want
// to "fix" this, perhaps with an #ifdef? My own knowledge of i386
// assembly is inadequate (thankfully?)...)  I pulled out the soldering
// iron and connected pin 4 from the terminal to pins 5 and 6 on the PC
// side (DB25--there's a DB9/DB25 converter thrown in there and a null
// modem too...)

	I just took a terminal server home from work.  That should be
fine.  :)

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