dlu@wobble.UUCP (Doug Urner) (11/07/88)
I'm trying to select a multi-port serial card for my '386 machine. One of the board's major responsibilities will be to handle uucp trafic through a high speed modem I am assuming that it will have to be a "smart" board. The OS is Interactive's 386/ix. I have more or less narrowed my search to these three boards, but I am open to other ideas. Anvil "Stallion" 8 port They claim to have implemented the tty driver on the board so that all serial i/o can be off loaded to the board. This might be great but it also makes me a little nervous about the amount of finger pointing that could get involved with keeping the drivers in sync. I also assume that I will have to keep two drivers around if I want any other serial boards on the system. Arnet "Smartport" 8 port This one did real well in "Infoworld's" benchmarks. They also offer a "lifetime" (of the machine (or company, whichever comes first :-)) warranty. Interactive supports this board. Dastra "MCIO/16" 8 port This one also claims to have UNIX/XENIX specific support, but I haven't been able to get much information about what exactly it is that they do to support UNIX... All of the benchmark reports that I have found in trade rags only report on one of the above, so they are hard to compare. I would appreciate any information that you care to share about these boards. Thanks in advance, Doug Urner uunet!wobble!dlu 206/676-5759