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Use an old serial VT100 terminal with OS X
Authored by: blaznee on Jul 26, '03 05:31:21PM

I've been using a VT320 and VT340 over a Keyspan Twin Serial adapter for about a year now. The /etc/ttys entries go like this:

tty.USA28X13P1.1 "/usr/libexec/getty local.9600" vt100 on local secure
tty.USA28X13P2.2 "/usr/libexec/getty local.9600" vt100 on local secure

It was great fun figuring this out. O'Reilly's _Essential System Administration_ was most helpful. Strange thing, though -- every once in a while getty goes berserk chewing up memory until it punches out and restarts. Weird. The process servicing the VT320 seems especially prone to this.



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