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Hardware device for multiplexing serial terminal connections
For the modern software equivalent, see Terminal multiplexer.
Terminal concentrators, also known as terminal multiplexers, were hardware devices used to multiplex multiple serial terminals to a single hardware computer connection. Examples of terminal multiplexers were the IBM 3299 and the terminal multiplexers made by Gandalf Technologies.
