[comp.sys.sun] Annex & Suns?

david%pyr@gatech.edu (David Brown) (03/24/89)

Hi.  I'm interested in using an Encore Annex terminal server instead of
regular Sun multiplexors on a Sun server.  It seams that it would offload
a lot of the I/O interrupts so the Sun could perform a lot better.
Anybody out there had any experience with Annex terminal servers with
non-Encore hardware, especially Suns?  Any responses greatly appreciated.

--David Brown

David Brown                       Armstrong State College, Savannah, Georgia
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bob@cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) (04/07/89)

   From: david%pyr@gatech.edu (David Brown)

   ...Annex terminal servers with non-Encore hardware, especially Suns?

We use a couple of Annices with just about everything we have (Sun-3s
under 3.5.1, Sun-4s under 4.0.1, Pyramids under 4.0 or 4.4, an Encore
Multimax under UMAX or Mach, a Butterfly under Mach, a DEC-20, IBM RTs
under Mach, a 3B2 under SVr3.0, etc.) and they work just great.  They are
in regular use by herds and herds of users, and occasionally as a UUCP
dialin path to machines without serial interfaces of their own.  We like
it a lot better than the computer center's Bridge CS/1.