Re: din-8 serial cables [was Re: /etc/disktab on vax]

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>>> For reference these are SGI part# 018-8104-001,
>> Is the SGI pinout for serial-on-miniDIN-8 the same as the Sun
>> pinout?  [...fuzzy memory says no...]

> Maybe this helps:

> http://www.netbsd.org/ports/sgimips/faq.html#serialconsole

Well, it seems ambiguous to me.  It says the pinout is the same, but
then it says "as long as you are willing to do it without hardware
handshaking lines", which sounds as though it may actually be "the data
and ground pins are the same but the handshake lines are different".

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