Experiences Programming on Cyclades Term Servers?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday December 6, 2001 @01:51AM from the looking-before-making-that-long-leap dept.

Sunda666 writes "I just got my hands on the Cyclades TS800, which is a terminal server with 8 high-performance serial ports, and 1 fast ethernet port that happens to run MontaVista's Hard Hat Linux. This thing has a small RAM (16Mb) some SSD (8MB), and a PPC@48MHz processor. We plan to develop apps (mostly serial-to-eth gateway software, but anything goes) for it, and I'd like to have some feedback from the Slashdot crowd of sucess/failure histories, hints and stuff. So far I'm loving the little blue thing (embedded webserver, ssh, nfs, and RAS software - almost all open source!) - sweet." Sounds like a sharp little machine. How we do these things perform in production?

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Good stuff by itwerx · 2001-12-06 03:46 · Score: 2, Interesting

I've never programmed Cyclades boxes but I've used them off and on over the years as terminal and print servers and I can say they're well nigh indestructible!
The company's been around forever and their product quality (and tech support) has always been excellent.
Their website always has useful stuff too.