Re: Splitting serial cables ?

briggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> If you've ever put a breakout box on an RS232 connector, you'll have
> noticed that TD and RD are always live.

Good point. Looks like a show stopper.

> You can have one source sending data to multiple receivers. That's
> no problem since the receivers aren't trying to coerce the signal line.

Yeah, that is why I though the idea would work.



So I guess getting a DECserver is perhaps best solution. And get a
program to run on 2 nodes, and the first one to start takes a lock and
then reverse LAT connects to the terminal server to talk to the OPA0:.
Second one waits for lock to go away before it immediatly reverse lat
connects to the port.
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