martin@ziebmef.uucp (Martin Loeffler) (07/23/88)
Today's question is for any hardware specialists out there. The reason I am
posting this under Xenix is becuase We're looking to run SCO Xenix (Which
I've heard is widely used) on a generic (made in the back room of the store)
386. What we're trying to do is make this 386 accept 10-12 incoming phone
lines at once. Santa Cruz informs me that there is no problem on their end
(Unlimited, but in practice only about 24 users/lines for best results) how-
ever the man I spoke with mentioned something vague about "8-port boards".
Anyone ever hear of such a beast for a 386 with the standard PC 8 and 16 bit
card slots? Any brand names you make/distribute/recomend?
Thanking you in advance...
"Knowledge/once gained/casts a faint light/beyond its own/immediate boundaries".root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera) (07/24/88)
In article <1988Jul23.083238.3015@ziebmef.uucp> martin@ziebmef.UUCP (Martin Loeffler) writes: > Today's question is for any hardware specialists out there. The reason I am >posting this under Xenix is becuase We're looking to run SCO Xenix (Which >I've heard is widely used) on a generic (made in the back room of the store) >386. What we're trying to do is make this 386 accept 10-12 incoming phone >lines at once. Santa Cruz informs me that there is no problem on their end >(Unlimited, but in practice only about 24 users/lines for best results) how- >ever the man I spoke with mentioned something vague about "8-port boards". >Anyone ever hear of such a beast for a 386 with the standard PC 8 and 16 bit >card slots? Any brand names you make/distribute/recomend? SCO Xenix is distributed with support for several multi-port cards. To my knowledge the only one of these that is capable of daisy-chaining multiple cards is the AMI LAMB card. This is not a "smart card", so it may not be suitable for your application if you plan to have many 9600 baud modems connected to it. But, for 1200/2400 baud use it should work fine. You can contact American Micronics at: American Micronics, Inc. 18005 Skypark Circle, Suite A Irvine, California 92714 (714) 261-0693/0780 -- USPS: The Consultants' Exchange, PO Box 12100, Santa Ana, CA 92712 TELE: (714) 842-6348: BBS (N81); (714) 842-5851: Xenix guest account (E71) UUCP: conexch Any ACU 2400 17148425851 "" "" ogin:-""-ogin:-""-ogin: nuucp UUCP: ...!uunet!turnkey!conexch!root || ...!trwrb!ucla-an!conexch!root
larry@focsys.UUCP (Larry Williamson) (07/26/88)
In article <1988Jul23.083238.3015@ziebmef.uucp> martin@ziebmef.UUCP (Martin Loeffler) writes: > >[...] something vague about "8-port boards". >Anyone ever hear of such a beast for a 386 with the standard PC 8 and 16 bit >card slots? Any brand names you make/distribute/recomend? > I've been using Connect Tech's Intellicon-8 Smart serial cards in both 286 and 386 boxes. I've used it with Microport and Bell Tech's versions of Unix. They supply drivers for Xenix, Interactive, Bell Tech, Microport, Dos, Pc-Mos, and QNX. You may put up to 4 boards in you computer (32 ports!). You can contact Mike Powers at (519) 836-1291 for more info. Larry -- Larry Williamson Focus Automation Systems UUCP: watmath!focsys!larry 608 Weber St. N, Waterloo, Ontario N2V 1K4 +1 519 746 4918