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I'm GLAD that i'll be able to still get a twinax console with the 520+
we'll be getting in a few months... I was worried i'd finally have to delve
into ops console. Maybe on the other 2 boxes we'll be replacing next
year...
Rob Dixon
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Gary Kuznitz wrote:
>Are they serious?
>
>Does a new 520 still need twinax for a console connection? Do you
>mean they haven't figured out how to make TCP/IP reliable enough yet?
>Is this candid camera? Is someone pulling my leg? I thought twinax was
>outdated 10 years ago. Can't IBM figure out how to make a reliable
>console without twinax?
>
>I thought I had an old twinax card in my stash of relics but I can't find
one.
>Is there any twinax emulation that would go out an ethernet port to a
>balun? Do I really have to buy a twinax card for windows? Do they still
>make them? Does anyone know where to buy one? Which one to buy?
>I'm not buying a dumb terminal. This is ridiculous.
>
You can pick up a second hand one for very little.
I have been using dumb terminals for 25 years, although for many years
now I have only used one as a console. Even with my PCs I prefer to use
a terminal emulator.
I would always specify one as a console, even for a new iSeries. The
point is not that IBM doesn't know how to make a reliable console
without twinax. They have already got a console that is not dependent
on the vagaries of the Wintel platform. If you plug in a twinax
terminal and turn it on, it works. Unlike my PCs, it doesn't have a
blue screen of death. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. For a console,
you must have absolute reliability.
>Surly someone can
>explain to IBM how make tcp/ip reliable enough for a console.
>
>I just can't stop laughing. They can make a reliable computer but they
>can't make communications reliable enough for a console?
>
>Maybe this is all a joke and I really don't have to use twinax for a
console.
>
>
You can do what you like. IBM enables you to use a PC. But my advice
is to overcome your prejudices and get a twinax terminal.
>That must be. Please tell me it is.
>
>
>
Rob Dixon
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