bae@ati.tis.llnl.gov (Hwa Jin Bae) (05/30/88)
OK. I can't help it if I'm impatient. I remember Dr. T.'s announcement
of RPC based networking for MINIX 1.3. This sounded too good to be true
at first. But since then I haven't heard any follow-ups/discussions at all.
I am interested in it because, with MINIX RPC, we will have a REAL network
based operating system since MINIX kernel itself is message passing.
Can anyone reveal some pre-release secrets of this thing? Will it resemble
SUN RPC in its syntax? Will it come with high level stub generators (like
rpcgen in SUN RPC 3.9, Courier, or NCS RPC)? What hardware will it use?
I assume you're using TCP/IP based protocol and implementing RPC over it, so
you probably are working on some ethernet device driver... I hear western
digital ethernet card WD8003E is the lowest cost, highest performance card
(for about ~$209 single units?). Please tell us more... I am picturing
this MINIX distributed O.S already....
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I am considering getting minix 1.5 for my PC/AT as a tool for learning unix style programming but one of my main concerns is networking. Does Minix support any form of networking? if so what types? standards?
rr87@ecs.southampton.ac.uk (Rees) (11/02/90)
I am trying to convert the MINIX (AMOEBA) networking code to use the INTEL PC LINK 2 ( on an INTEL system 120 ). The Ethernet driver supplied with the MINIX 1.3 that I have uses the NS DP8390 Ethernet chip. The PC LINK 2 uses an INA 960 Ethernet chip and an 80186. If anyone has tried/ suceeded in writing a driver for this, I would be very glad to hear from them. Failing that, if anyone has any experience with the PC LINK 2, I would be glad to here from them. Thanks in advance. Rob (rr87@uk.ac.soton.ecs)