OT: Perle Rack Communications Server IO LAN

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With neither thought nor caution, Tony Freehauf blurted:
> OFF TOPIC:
> Perle Rack Communications Server IO LAN
> I have a customer that has a "magic box" called a
> Perle Rack communications Server IO LAN
> it is running on old SCO Unix 5.05
> the SCO network cable plugs into the Perle device  & the Perle device  
> connects to lots of old terminals. Works great.
> 
> Would this kind of device work with Linux??

Assuming we're talking the ones like these:

http://www.perle.com/products/Terminal-Server.shtml

...Those are IOLAN devices.  And they're just terminal servers.  Of course
they would work with linux, given the proper linux configuration.  That
goes for any *nix.

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