From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 19 10:40:36 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA26161 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 10:40:36 -0700 Received: from etinc.com (etinc-gw.new-york.net [165.254.13.209]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA26153 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 10:40:30 -0700 Received: from trumpet.etnet.com (trumpet.etnet.com [129.45.17.35]) by etinc.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA27999; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 13:55:12 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 13:55:12 -0400 Message-Id: <199510191755.NAA27999@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: Re: Bragging rights.. Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >> How much for the whole setup (16550's + Adtran)? I'd like to compare it to a >> sync card with the less expensive motorolas. You may be able to get 128k >> with no overhead for a few dollars more. > >The serial cards were dirt.. Maybe $30 apiece, though I think we can >almost assume they're free on the motherboard these days.. The TAs >were about $650 a pop, I think. I'd need to check the invoice. > >TAs prices are also going to fall through the floor in the next 6 >months, I think. There's just too much demand for them not to. You >tell all those new ISDN customers "It's just a faster modem! Hook it >to the same serial port!" and they're going to understand what you're >saying. The only competing solutions will be all-in-one ISDN cards >with nice setup software. Just like external and internal modems >compete today.. :) > So for the same price you could have sync, with a lot more bandwidth. Pretty interesting? You'd be surprised what people really want. Upgradability is a big issue in todays market, and ISDN cards are throwaways when you want to upgrade. Its nice to be able to swap out the external unit and have a higher speed link, or to run a different protocol. Plus with internal cards you have to wait for somebody to write a driver....... Dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25