203013%DHHDKRZ5.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Markus F. Boie) (07/09/90)
I would like to connect an IBM-AT (286 or 386 type) MS/DOS box via ethernet to a Unix workstation and use its resources (as serial and parallel ports, disks, boards and color display maybe) from the workstation. Does any software exist that does soemthing like this? I think it would have to be kind of a deamon handling all (NFS, RQS, TELNET and reverse TELNET, whatever) requests, as DOS doesn't support multitasking. Running Unix on the PC is not the solution i'm looking for as it would require a new disk drive and any Unix license which is both too expensive. I would at least like to get my hands on the serial and paralle ports of the DOS box. So, if you know software doing just this please tell me! Please send answers to any of my email addresses as i'm not subscribed to this list. thanx in advance, Markus -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Markus F. Boie Office: Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) Bundesstrasse 55 D-2000/13 Hamburg West-Germany Private: Phone: (+49) 40 / 41173.288 Heidberg 24 FAX: (+49) 40 / 41173.270 D-2000/60 Hamburg Bitnet: MBoie@dhhdkrz5.bitnet West-Germany Internet: k203013@klima.dkrz-hamburg.de Phone: (+49) 40 / 270 51 70 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------