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From: chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Computone serial boards (was DigiComm)
Summary: Avoid them.
Message-ID: <24E97939.7243@ateng.com>
Date: 16 Aug 89 14:24:55 GMT
References: <963@lakesys.UUCP> <60@nstar.UUCP>
Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
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According to root@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder):
>Computone boards seem very popular with Xenix users.

Not this Xenix user.

My company bundled (past tense) Computone Intelliport-6 boards with our
Xenix-based systems.  Our field return rate on Intelliport-6's has been
greater than 50%.  That's right:  More than half of them returned on their
shields.

We spent much more on Federal Express and UPS than we would have spent
buying a more expensive, but reliable, alternative.  Not to mention the lost
customer goodwill when their systems' serial I/O would just stop.

Avoid Computone.  We're changing over to Arnet, ourselves.
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