Re: Splitting serial cables ?

Is this a shop environment or just an experimental toy in the basement.

This type of hook-up does not exist in the RS232 spec at all and violating
RS232 puts all connected systems at risk of having a hardware failure at the
wrong time or of crashing just when they are needed.

If this were my business, I'd have your resignation.




"JF Mezei" <jfmezei.spamnot@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Steven M. Schweda" wrote:
> > First figure out what is supposed to happen to all the outputs you've
> > wired together, and who wins the arguments when one says "+12V" and
> > another says "-12V".
>
> Since an OPA0: doesn't have modem controls, is that still a big problem
> ?
>
> The goal isn't to have multiple people writing to OPA0: at the same
> time. That would indeed cause gibberish.
> The goal is more to log the output opf OPA0: to two different ports and
> possibly have one of those ports send data out at a time.
>
> Would that still fail ?
>
> > This is one of the reasons for which God created terminal servers.
>
> Yeah, I guess. However a terminal server wouldn't let me have 2
> applications access the same port at the same time.
>
> And I would have to find a decserver that is UP without any help of a
> boot node. Consider after a total shutdown, if I wish to access the >>>
> prompt before booting, without a working decserver, I couldn't...
>
> But you are right, a decserver is probably still the most elegant
> solution.


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