brian@bjm.wimsey.bc.ca (brian) (12/06/90)
Hi Net, I just got ESIX REV D. and to my surprise the documentation is on the severely lacking side. My inquiries lead me to believe the manuals are $142 each (whewww!) or ~$600 for a "set of tech. documentation" (what ever the hell that includes, I don't know). I remember reading a while ago that Prentice Hall releases a set of Documentation for ESIX. If this is indeed true, what are the details? Price, ordering info, just verifiction that they do, what ever you can tell me will be of great help!! I was having a lot of trouble getting the vanilla port to "uucico" without alarming!! I found out (by reading the release notes) that uucp's maximum throughput on ESIX's serial driver is no more than 4800 baud!! Well this just annoys the hell out of me (having a modem which will talk faster than the serial port - when did you think you'd ever hear that one??). What can I do? Faster Uarts (16550), the fas driver, any help would be awesome. Thanx in advance ...van-bc!bjm!brian Newsgroups: van-bc.general Distribution: van-bc Subject: test Summary: test Keywords: test just a test Newsgroups: van-bc.general Distribution: van-bc Subject: test Summary: test Keywords: test just a tester Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Distribution: world Subject: ESIX Manuals, serial drivers Summary: Prentice Hall ESIX Manuals Keywords: manuals serial drivers uucp Hi Net, I just got ESIX REV D. and to my surprise the documentation is on the severely lacking side. My inquiries lead me to believe the manuals are $142 each (whewww!) or ~$600 for a "set of tech. documentation" (what ever the hell that includes, I don't know). I remember reading a while ago that Prentice Hall releases a set of Documentation for ESIX. If this is indeed true, what are the details? Price, ordering info, just verifiction that they do, what ever you can tell me will be of great help!! I was having a lot of trouble getting the vanilla port to "uucico" without alarming!! I found out (by reading the release notes) that uucp's maximum throughput on ESIX's serial driver is no more than 4800 baud!! Well this just annoys the hell out of me (having a modem which will talk faster than the serial port - when did you think you'd ever hear that one??). What can I do? Faster Uarts (16550), the fas driver, any help would be awesome. Thanx in advance ...van-bc!bjm!brian Newsgroups: van-bc.general Distribution: van-bc Subject: test Summary: test Keywords: test just a test Newsgroups: van-bc.general Distribution: van-bc Subject: test Summary: test Keywords: test just a tester
brian@bjm.wimsey.bc.ca (brian) (12/11/90)
Hi Net, I just got ESIX REV D. and to my surprise the documentation is on the severely lacking side. My inquiries lead me to believe the manuals are $142 each (whewww!) or ~$600 for a "set of tech. documentation" (what ever the hell that includes, I don't know). I remember reading a while ago that Prentice Hall releases a set of Documentation for ESIX. If this is indeed true, what are the details? Price, ordering info, just verifiction that they do, what ever you can tell me will be of great help!! I was having a lot of trouble getting the vanilla port to "uucico" without alarming!! I found out (by reading the release notes) that uucp's maximum throughput on ESIX's serial driver is no more than 4800 baud!! Well this just annoys the hell out of me (having a modem which will talk faster than the serial port - when did you think you'd ever hear that one??). What can I do? Faster Uarts (16550), the fas driver, any help would be awesome. Thanx in advance ...van-bc!bjm!brian
bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) (12/12/90)
In article <1990Dec6.040153.473@bjm.wimsey.bc.ca> brian@bjm.wimsey.bc.ca (brian) writes: > I just got ESIX REV D. and to my surprise the documentation is on >the severely lacking side. My inquiries lead me to believe the manuals are >$142 each (whewww!) or ~$600 for a "set of tech. documentation" (what ever >the hell that includes, I don't know). You can get the full documentation set for around $329 or so! I'd suggest getting the Esix set, rather than the Prentice Hall releases -- that way you won't miss the Esix-specific stuff. > I was having a lot of trouble getting the vanilla port to "uucico" >without alarming!! I found out (by reading the release notes) that uucp's >maximum throughput on ESIX's serial driver is no more than 4800 baud!! HUH????? Remote K-Bytes K-Bytes K-Bytes Hours Hours AvCPS AvCPS # # SiteName Recv Xmit Total Recv Xmit Recv Xmit Recv Xmit -------- --------- --------- --------- ------ ------ ----- ----- ---- ---- world 10384.933 10.050 10394.983 2.60 0.00 1111 1573 366 10 And this is LOW too -- usually it's around 1250 - 1300 on receiving. This is using a T2500-T2500 connection. I'm running Esix Rev D. -- home: ...!{uunet,bloom-beacon,esegue}!world!unixland!bill bill@unixland.uucp, bill%unixland.uucp@world.std.com Public Access Unix - Esix SYSVR3 - 508-655-3848 12/24/96-HST 508-651-8733 12/24/96-PEP/V32
larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) (12/14/90)
brian@bjm.wimsey.bc.ca (brian) writes: > I was having a lot of trouble getting the vanilla port to "uucico" >without alarming!! I found out (by reading the release notes) that uucp's >maximum throughput on ESIX's serial driver is no more than 4800 baud!! > Well this just annoys the hell out of me (having a modem which will >talk faster than the serial port - when did you think you'd ever hear that >one??). What can I do? Faster Uarts (16550), the fas driver, any help would >be awesome. Install the FAS driver - which will work wonders for serial IO (along with 16550's)... -- Larry Snyder, Northern Star Communications, Notre Dame, IN USA {larry@nstar.rn.com, uunet!nstar!larry, larry%nstar@mailrus.cc.umich.edu} backbone usenet newsfeeds available Public Access Unix Site (219) 289-0282 (5 high speed lines)
seg@segpc.UUCP (Scott E. Garfinkle) (12/14/90)
From article <1990Dec6.040153.473@bjm.wimsey.bc.ca>, by brian@bjm.wimsey.bc.ca (brian): > I remember reading a while ago that Prentice Hall releases a set of > Documentation for ESIX.... The Prentice Hall books are for generic AT&T SVR3.2/386. However, they work great with Esix, except that neither X nor BSD networking is covered. Actually, I think that the Esix manuals run more like $350 for the set. If you don't yet have any of the Prentica Hall manuals, it might make sense to get the Esix set. If you want any computer book whatsoever, in general, call Computer Literacy Bookshop in San Jose, CA. Tel (408) 435-1118. They are very reliable by mail order -- I did a lot of that when I was with the Army in Germany. > I was having a lot of trouble getting the vanilla port to "uucico" > without alarming!! I found out (by reading the release notes) that uucp's > maximum throughput on ESIX's serial driver is no more than 4800 baud!! Actually, my experience was more like 2400 baud or less with Rev C. In Rev D, they theoretically turned on some support for the 16550. You *really* need to get 16550s, though. I strongly recommend the AST 4 port card or clone thereof. Then use fas 2.06 or 2.07 and stand back. It's *much* better than asy. Only problem -- I'm not sure if you can use the mouse under X on a port controlled by fas. I keep meaning to try it. I have an internal trailblazer+ on a fas port and I get around 1400 cps throughput talking to uunet. yours, Scott E. Garfinkle
steve@nuchat.sccsi.com (Steve Nuchia) (12/15/90)
In article <1990Dec13.175747.2891@nstar.rn.com> larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes: >Install the FAS driver - which will work wonders for serial IO (along >with 16550's)... Happy to report that fas works well on UHC V.4. But, the line discipline module is now tagged for future deletion, and a lot of features (job control!) are only supported with the streams module. Is anybody working on stream-ifying fas? -- Steve Nuchia South Coast Computing Services (713) 964-2462 "Could we find tools that would teach their own use, we should have discovered something truly beyond price." Socrates, in Plato's Republic