From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 25 19:24:53 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id TAA26416 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 19:24:53 -0700 Received: from kryten.atinc.com (kryten.Atinc.COM [198.138.38.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA26397 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 19:24:48 -0700 Received: (jmb@localhost) by kryten.atinc.com (8.6.9/8.3) id WAA25352; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 22:14:05 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 22:14:04 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: Want to setup a quasi X-Terminal To: Peter Bechtold cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hardware-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 26 Jul 1995, Peter Bechtold wrote: > since my computer is a little too loud to sleep next to it (at least > my girl friend thinks so), I'm planning to setup a diskless FreeBSD pc > as an X-Terminal. tough choice--girl friend vs computer. its not a laptop, i take it ;) (see dilbert of 7/12 ?) > PS: BTW, what do you think: How long can a printer cable (parallel) be ? i have seen 80 feet work. aint done it myself, but i have seen it work. > How about serial ? john mc namara in _technical_aspects_of_data_communications_ 3rd edition, appendix a has graphs of distance vs baud. (fig a-9). using 22 awg 4 conductor inside station wire dec pn 9105856-04 (anyone got a catalog?) driven by 1488's with 1489 receivers, the data points are: feet baud unshielded 110 3000 300 3000 1200 3000 2400 500 4800 250 9600 250 take it for what it is worth. Jonathan M. Bresler jmb@kryten.atinc.com | Analysis & Technology, Inc. FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.Org | 2341 Jeff Davis Hwy play go. | Arlington, VA 22202 ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life | 703-418-2800 x346