tmcdo450@pallas.athenanet.com (Tim McDonough) (12/21/90)
I'd like to do some experimenting with distributed process control and MINIX seems to be a good OS to use since sources are included, there's a broad user base and it's reasonably cheap. Could someone possibly answer a few questions for me if possible? 1. Can I run several small tasks simultaneously using a 640K XT with a hard disk and have task to task communications? 2. Is it possible and are there examples available that show how to write drivers for data aquisition type cards in the PC? I can use all serial port based devices if need be but I'd rather not for speed of data transfer reasons. 3. Are any spreadsheet or database type applications available that run under MINIX? In general, what sorts of non-system utility type applications are around? If this type of general information is available elsewhere please steer me in the proper direction. I'm fairly new to usenet and don't know my way around too well! Tim