From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 20 11:19:44 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA14898 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 11:19:44 -0700 Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.20.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA14893 ; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 11:19:41 -0700 Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id NAA29469; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 13:18:49 -0500 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199510201818.NAA29469@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: Bragging rights.. To: jkh@freebsd.org (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 13:18:49 -0500 (CDT) Cc: dennis@etinc.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3087E066.A5B0608@FreeBSD.org> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Oct 20, 95 10:46:14 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > dennis wrote: > > > I'm thinking about a $600. solution in reasonable quantities (about $250. > > for the TA and $350. for the card and software). Better than ISDN card > > I think you're being pretty optimistic about the cost of the TA.. And > why so much for the card? You're telling me it costs more to make a > sync serial card than a reasonably high quality TA? Quite possibly :-) I do not find it hard to believe that it costs a lot to produce a "niche" product. Dennis is, however, comparing apples and pumpkins, because he is quoting $250 on one hand for a sync TA, and $650 (the price you paid) for an async TA, when the truth is more like $260 for an inexpensive async TA such as the Bitsurfer. Given a sufficiently inexpensive sync serial card, physical control of both ends of the link (so that you don't have somebody charging you a fortune for the privilege of doing sync serial on a router port, etc), I think it could be a really good solution. I would do it myself. :-) However, I do not see it as being practical for a large number of people. For the reasons previously stated. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847