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 uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,uunet,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!david ARPA: david@pyr.gatech.edu
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.