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