IBM'ing with Unix

[utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards]

>From mo at LBL-UNIX Mon Nov  2 12:36:08 1981
I have done a lot of RJE interfacing to Unix and have reached this
conclusion: You are much better off buying a $3-4K microprocessor box
to do the BSC (or UT200 or whatnot) which then connects to Unix via
back-to-back RS-232 connectors (one for the "printer", one for the
"card reader", and one for the "console", if you are doing HASP
multileaving).  The BSC protocol stuff is ugly, and a system hog.  Let
someone else do the hard work; there is enough to do building spoolers
and delivery mechanisms to process outgoing and incoming jobs.  Note:
while the PWB implementation is horrid beyond belief, it does contain
some of the right notions.
	-Mike