Both my computers run Solaris. * One, a Sun Ultra 27 has a Xeon processor, no serial ports, but I do have a good quality USB serial adapter for it.
* The other, a Sun Blade 2000, has a SPARC processor & a 25 pin serial port. I am using the Sun Blade 2000 to talk to the HP now, but I don't run that machine 24/7 due to the fact it is rather power hungry. The Xeon based machine is much more modern, much faster and uses a lot less power. I would like to be able to set the date & time of the Xeon workstation from the HP 58503A. I appreciate that the USB is likely to cause some performance degradation compared to a real serial port, but I can live with that. Can anyone advise if this is possible, and if so what software is needed? Any idea what sort of accuracy would be achievable? I bought this to use as a frequency reference, not a clock, so I am not going to buy commercial software to do it, but if it can be done easily from open source software I will do so. Any suggestions? Dave _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
