0n Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 10:15:14AM -0400, Dan Logcher wrote: 

    >Charles Ballowe wrote:
    >
    >>Is ACSLS running on your master/media server - Last I looked it only
    >>supported Solaris and maybe AIX - that might be a killer for using
    >>ACSLS on linux. Are you sharing your robot with others? Is there any
    >>reason to use ACSLS? TLD control works just fine for those robots and
    >>is far less expensive to implement than ACSLS.
    >> 
    >>
    >Yes, some robots only use ACSLS for communication.  We have the L5500 
    >and it will
    >only talk ACS, no TLD.  The L5500 can handle serial and IP connection, 
    >but ACSLS is used for both.  So we are stuck having a SUN server for that. 
 Not a big 
    >deal though,as we are sharing the robot with other backup services, and it 
makes it 
    >a bit easier.

Following this thread ... can someone please exapand the following
acronyms:

ACS
TLD

- aW