Aucbvax.4913
fa.unix-wizards
utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards
Mon Nov 2 12:46:50 1981
IBM'ing with Unix
>From mo@LBL-UNIX Mon Nov 2 12:36:08 1981
I have done a lot of RJE interfacing to Unix and have reached this
conclusion: You are much better off buying a $3-4K microprocessor box
to do the BSC (or UT200 or whatnot) which then connects to Unix via
back-to-back RS-232 connectors (one for the "printer", one for the
"card reader", and one for the "console", if you are doing HASP
multileaving). The BSC protocol stuff is ugly, and a system hog. Let
someone else do the hard work; there is enough to do building spoolers
and delivery mechanisms to process outgoing and incoming jobs. Note:
while the PWB implementation is horrid beyond belief, it does contain
some of the right notions.
-Mike
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