On 6/28/20 1:10 PM, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> Of course it can, each link is point to point

You just said what I said.  "Each (RS-232) link is point to point".  End
of story.

> but nothing restricts a computer to a single serial port.

I completely agree.

But now you are talking about something decidedly outside of the scope
of "each link".  ;-)

> Way back we used to use Altos Micnet to create a LAN based on UUCP
> over whatever topology of serial connections you cared to make. These
> days PPP would be a much better option.

Sure.  That's the software that interconnects multiple machines on top
of many point-to-point links.

RS-485 supports physically connecting more than two machines to the same
physical link.  No additional software needed to copy things from link
to link.  ;-)



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