..I'd rather be coding ASM! writes:
>
> I suspect by the sound of it, he wants a central machine with multiple
> serial ports hanging off it to control 'n' machines. But, perhaps I've
> mis-understood also.
What used to be called a "terminal server", like the old Spider Atom,
where you could telnet to a port on a server, and be presented with a
connection to whatever was hanging off a particular serial onthe
server.
You can get similar functionality with "termnet".
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