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Aucbvax.4913 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Mon Nov 2 12:46:50 1981 IBM'ing with Unix >From mo@LBL-UNIX Mon Nov 2 12:36:08 1981 I have done a lot of RJE interfacing to Unix and have reached this conclusion: You are much better off buying a $3-4K microprocessor box to do the BSC (or UT200 or whatnot) which then connects to Unix via back-to-back RS-232 connectors (one for the "printer", one for the "card reader", and one for the "console", if you are doing HASP multileaving). The BSC protocol stuff is ugly, and a system hog. Let someone else do the hard work; there is enough to do building spoolers and delivery mechanisms to process outgoing and incoming jobs. Note: while the PWB implementation is horrid beyond belief, it does contain some of the right notions. -Mike

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