guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum) (11/28/84)
Some questions to which I would like to receive answers (by mail) from
those who have tried (successfully or not) or from those "in the know":
- Is it possible to run a version of UNIX on a PC which supports
UUCP and thus allows access to USENET?
- What kind of upgrade would be necessary for the PC? (I suppose
512 kb of memory and a 10 Mb hard disk would suffice; correct me
if I'm wrong.)
- What suitable versions (for this application) of UNIX for the PC exist?
- What hardware exists to support access to the UUCP network? (auto-
answer modems and/or autodiallers.)
- Does anyone use a PC for this kind of application? Do you find it
adequate? Experiences?
(Remember, I live in Europe, where everything happens a bit later.
But you may hear from us some day!)
Thanks in advance,
Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam
guido@mcvax.UUCP
"Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it, depends on what you put
into it."wcs@ho95b.UUCP (Bill Stewart) (12/04/84)
Guido and others interested: Yes. Lauren Weintein's machine "vortex" is an IBM-PC running Coherent. He often posts articles to various newsgroups, but one usable address is ihnp4!vortex!lauren. He also is marketing versions of uucp that will run on lots of things, including Unix-compatible systems and non-Unix operating systems. Basically, you need a hard disk to run UNIX on a PC, both for swapping, and for storing all the programs and libraries (plus you'll need several meg for storing netnews articles.) Typical hardware includes an MS-DOS PC of some sort, with >= 10 Meg disk, 512K, autodialer modem (a Hayes-compatible modem is most likely to be supported.) A hard-wired line to a larger machine would be valuable. You might have an easier time if you have your machine polled by other machines rather than you polling them; this is especially beneficial if you have uucp problems, or if you have a modem that uucp won't dial out on. -- Bill Stewart AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ...!ihnp4!ho95b!wcs