doug@UXC.CSO.UIUC.EDU (Doug Gilmore) (03/08/87)
Though I don't have time to investigate this at the moment, I think its worth noting. As you may have learned from other messages I have sent on the net, I have ported 4.3BSD to the IBM PC-AT. Though the port is far from complete, the network code is fairly solid, thus it would not take too much effort to build reliable gateway machines using this code. In my earlier message, I neglected to mention that kernel has a resident debugger that allows one single step and set breakpoints in the kernel (the user interface is special version of adb that runs on a VAX that communicate with the resident debugger via a serial line). Thus the debugging environment is quite reasonable. Also it may be relatively easy to port the BRL Gateway to the PC-AT using the 4.3BSD code as a basis -- again the kernel debugger would prove very useful here. Send me mail if you would like more information. Doug Gilmore doug@uiucux, doug@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu
jmainini@SPAM.ISTC.SRI.COM (John Mainini) (03/09/87)
Doug, I have an associate interested in using a PC AT as a gateway between XNS and 3PLUS. I've been told the 2 protocols are very similiar, and personally I can't imagine what 3Com was thinking about when they didn't follow an established standard. Any ideas? Thanks in advance...John Mainini.