Mick wrote:

> On 11/06/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> What is the following entry in /etc/inittab for?
>
> # SERIAL CONSOLES
> #s0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 9600 ttyS0 vt100
> #s1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 9600 ttyS1 vt100
>

Back in the old days they were for terminals that hooked to the serial
ports on the back.  Here is a link: 
http://www.wyse.com/products/gpt/wy55es.asp  I used to sit at one of
those and it gets old.  The beep that thing has drove me nuts.  We had a
IBM system with a blazing fast 25MHz single CPU.  We had about 180
people running off that along with about 40 printers.  Some of the
printers were Genicom 4440's.  Geez they were fast.

That's what I remember that being for.  Hope I'm right.

Dale
:-) :-)
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