danielw@wyn386.UUCP (Daniel Wynalda) (08/02/89)
I have been recently asked to acquire/develop a new system for use in our production plants. With the advent of the newer, higher speed 386 machines, it leaves me with a few questions. Could I please get the kind input from a few of you on the advantages/problems encountered with the 25Mhz+ machines? I am going to have this machine (using intelligent I/O cards) monitor a few of the devices on our plant floor. I'll be writing the daemons and running an occasional program in "cron" under 386 SCO Unix (or Xenix) to analyze and transfer the data. Could someone please give me input on the advantages of the 386/25 and 386/33 machines around, and whether I should spend the extra $$. I would like to connect the new machine to our current SCO Xenix 80386/20 machine with Mylex motherboard. This connection will, hopefully, be TCP/IP with Xenix-Net from SCO. Could someone please give me input one your configuration of TCP/IP (Whether you are using Excelan etc) and your input as to what you can reasonably expect from this network. Also, we have a few DOS machines that act as terminals on the current 80386 machine. If we begin to run TCP/IP and Xenix-Net on our machines, could we link our PC's via SLIP (or other linking method I guess) and get them to use the Xenix machine as a FILE SERVER as well as allow remote logins? I realize I could do it by buying another ETHERNET card for the DOS machines, but I'd rather run over a twisted pair cable for as often as I would do it. Any input on the subject of TCP/IP, Xenix-Net, and 20Mhz+ machines would be greatly appreciated. Thank you Daniel Wynalda -- Daniel Wynalda | Telephone: (616) 866-1561 X22 Ham: N8KUD Wynalda Litho Inc. | Network: danielw@wyn386.UUCP ..sharkey!wyn386!danielw 8221 Graphic Ind Pk. | Diskclaimer: If you find a disk with no label, it is Rockford, MI 49341 | the one I lost. I say what I say for me ONLY here.