Re: Strange Cisco 6503 problem

[gordon b slater <gordslater () ieee org>]

On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 18:36 -0500, Steven Bellovin wrote:
> Actually, it's not at all surprising, but it depends on the UART or
> equivalent.

and the dynamic characteristics of the power rails, to a certain extent.

Sun kit is quite sensitive to this sort of thing.

Zonker has a good guide to what does what and what borks in his
conserver pages:

http://www.conserver.com/consoles/

as well as a bucketload of pinout info for console ports and console
servers in general.

The whole site is good reference for younger techies born in the USB
age ;)

Gord
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