[comp.unix.xenix] Corollary ??

dny@kolvi.hut.fi (Dag Nygren) (05/05/89)

Hi there, 

I have been trying to get hold of a company named Corollary Inc.

Address ?? Phone number ?? Telex ??

Do they do anything else than serial multiplexers ??

Experience with their products ??

Any pointer would be greatly appreciated.


Dag Nygren                dag@atomsf.uucp or dny@kolvi.uucp
Oy Atomica Ab
Box 22
02171 ESPOO, FINLAND

steveb@aostul.UUCP (Steve Bogner) (05/08/89)

We have been using the Corollary Intellimux for about nine
months now and have nothing bad to say about it.  

It uses an 80188 processor on a half card in
the PC's bus and a Z80 processor in each of the four 8-port
terminal concentrators that attach to it.  There is an
RS-422 line (at 230.4 Kbaud) to each concentrator, enabling
us to put the concentrator up to 1000 ft from the PC.  All of
this gives you much flexibility as well as a more evenly
distributed load on the system as a whole.  Although it
supports transparent print, I haven't used it.  

Their phone# is 714 / 250 - 4040.  They also OEM this
product to ALR (Advance Logic Research), who sells it with
their Flexcache 386's; phone# is 714 / 581 - 6770.

Steve Bogner

!uunet!romed!aostul!steveb

jeff@swusrgrp.UUCP (Jeff Tye sys adm) (05/15/89)

In article <171@kolvi.hut.fi>, dny@kolvi.hut.fi (Dag Nygren) writes:
> 
> I have been trying to get hold of a company named Corollary Inc.

Their phone is (714) 250-4040. Talk to Alan Slipson.

> Do they do anything else than serial multiplexers ??

They market a multiprocessor 386 based AT box in an OEM form. Their
major customer is Zenith with their Z1000 (or Z10000?).

> Experience with their products ??

Their 8X4 mux board and 8 port terminal concentrator is the best on the 
market IMHO. I've used Computone, Digiboard, Mitsubishi, and have tested
a number of others. I pulled Computone boards out of several of my customer's
sites and replaced them with the Corollary product to solve a number of
problems.

They have the best software drivers for XENIX and 386/ix UNIX. Their
transparent or passthru print driver is the best I've ever seen or used.
The 8X4 mux allows for 4 of the 8 port terminal concentrators to be used
in a system for a total of 32 ports off of one slot. Four of the 8X4 mux
boards can be used in a system using only one interupt line. That's 128
ports on one AT box (a bit of an overkill :-)

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Jeff Tye
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