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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!pendragon!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!ccnet.com!usenet From: Bill Richter <richterb@ccnet.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Free BSD/Term Server Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 14:10:55 -0800 Organization: CCnet Communications (510-988-7140 guest) Lines: 23 Message-ID: <310BF46F.446B9B3D@ccnet.com> References: <310BB951.285C@ccpl.carr.lib.md.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: h98-197.ccnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) Many times you can find surplus terminal servers in the back of communications magazines. The bad news is they are usually in 4/8/16/32 port flavors. What's not clear if you're using the stock machine as a terminal server or as a host supporting 20 terminals. I don't think I'd like to be running my programs on a machine with such a small amount of memory. Especially when your are user 5 or 6 if you're planning to be a host. If you're using the machine as a terminal server, the terminal server, new, is gonna turn out to be cheaper and less headache. And performance wise, more efficient and doing async to TCP/IP. Joe Sunday wrote: > > I have about 20 WYSE 325 dumb Terminals, but the place I got them from > kept the server. Can I build a stock 486/66 with about 16 megs of ram to > support these using FreeBSD and 2 or 3 8 Port serial boards? I just need > them for light games and text mode apps.