RS232 null modem ftw!

dekhn · 2024-02-23T18:53:05 1708714385

At some point in college (in the mid 90s) I had a Linux box and a Sun box (pre-solaris) and had them connected up using X11 over SLIP over RS232 with a null modem and gender changer. The sun workstation could be completely controlled through RS232- you could reset the machine, do stuff to the boot system, etc. IIRC the max baud I could use was 19200, or maybe 38400.

rusk · 2024-02-28T16:05:57 1709136357

> The sun workstation could be completely controlled through RS232

As a terminal right? the native function for RS232 was dumb terminals, and at some point that got abstracted a few thousand times to what we consider to be common terminals. You were running a proper paleo setup!