frank@rsoft.bc.ca (Frank I. Reiter) (02/23/90)
Very soon now I will begin work on a large project which will involve 20
or so MSDOS front ends talking through modems and direct serial links
to a 386 Xenix system running some sort of data server. All interaction with
the users of this system will be handled by the MSDOS software which will then
send requests to and wait for answers from multiple server processes running
under Xenix.
Our original plan was to develop a custom (relatively simple) protocol to
take care of packetizing, error correction, and perhaps even compression of
information flowing in both directions but now I am wondering if SCO's tcp-ip
might have much of what we need already.
Is this product appropriate for an application like this? Why or why not?
Any alternate suggestions?
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Surrey, British Columbia BBS: Mind Link @ (604)576-1214, login as Guestmark@promark.UUCP (Mark J. DeFilippis) (02/27/90)
In article <64@rsoft.bc.ca>, frank@rsoft.bc.ca (Frank I. Reiter) writes: > Very soon now I will begin work on a large project which will involve 20 > or so MSDOS front ends talking through modems and direct serial links > to a 386 Xenix system running some sort of data server. All interaction with > the users of this system will be handled by the MSDOS software which will then > send requests to and wait for answers from multiple server processes running > under Xenix. Has it been done before? You bet. Unix servers were one of the first uses for Unix systems. Much of what you want is out there for X.25 and Unix, but not XENIX. For TCP/IP I have seen so many horror stories about buggy drivers from manuf. that make boards for use with TCP/IP. Anyone running TCP/IP with decent boards and drivers for XENIX? I sure would appreciate a lead in this area. And while I am asking, anyone get NNTP to work on these same systems using said boards and drivers? -- Mark J. DeFilippis SA @ Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Adelphi University, Garden City, NY 11530 (516) 663-1170 UUCP: philabs!sbcs!bnlux0!adelphi!markd