What cost, serial I/O ports at 19.2kbps?

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From: idallen
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1989 03:31

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From: "Ian! D. Allen [CGL]" <idallen>

We have an 8600 running 4.3bsd with a DMF-32 (2 modem-control serial
lines, 6 dumb serial lines, parallel port) and two DMZ-32's (two times
24 modem-control serial lines).  (I moved two of our telebit modems over
to the DMF after I found out that the DMZ just could not do 19.2kbps.)

I went DEC catalogue (catalog) shopping for serial lines for the
replacement DECsystem 5810 we are considering (VAXBI bus), and was amazed
at how expensive things are -- about three times the price-per-port of a
Q-bus serial controller.  I think I'm going to buy a Q-bus serial
controller for each of our MVII and VS3200 Q-bus machines instead.
Why are these VAXBI serial controllers so expensive?

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Subject: What cost, serial I/O ports at 19.2kbps?
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Date: 27 Oct 89 03:31:22 GMT
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