Re: How can I attach 8 or 10 modems to a NeXT?

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From: Matthew Dillon
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1992 19:27

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In article <Bwwqz3.Iwv@sounds.wa.com> BrianW@SoundS.WA.com (Brian Willoughby) writes:
>Matthew Dillon writes
>| > Gerben Wierda, wierda@ltb.ltb.bso.nl writes:
>| >>I am asking this for a friend: Is there a way to attach a set of modems
>| >>(>2) to a NeXT? For instance, through a SCSI-extension that supports
>| >>several ttys? This is for the creation of a PPP based small WAN.
>|
>|     There are also serial port and other products in the general unix
>|     market that drop off the ethernet.
>|
>|     No limits at all there and very easy to connect up.
>
>Ok, but how do you get serial port drivers that run on the NeXT to talk to
>these devices?  I admit that I don't have any experience with this.  Do the
>general Unix hardware devices come with standard Unix source code that can be
>compiled on the NeXT?	Or is it even simpler?	Can you just open something like
>/dev/en0/port1 or something else?

    Good question... I don't know.  I presume one telnet's them for dialout
    and that dialin works like a port selector... the unit telnet's or
    rlogin's to the NeXT.

					-Matt

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Subject: Re:   How can I attach 8 or 10 modems to a NeXT?
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