sfm@idt.unit.no (Stig Frode Mjoelsnes) (11/01/90)
In the Minix Information Sheet of Sept 30 1990 it is mentioned under 3.1 Additional Minix 1.5 features (IBM version) - Distributed computing on Ethernet (remote login, etc.) What's in here? Would it be applications based on TCP/IP? And what kind of Ethernet cards are supported. To the point, my project is as follows: I have a special IBM-bus board that does fast modulo arithmetic. However, my workstation is a Sun 3/80 running SunOS 4.03. Problem: I want to do remote procedure calls to this hardwareboard over the Ethernet. Now I probably could use some public MSDOS TCP/IP software, and try to set up the MSDOS-machine as a server(-kludge). Another path would be to use the available RPC Service Library Routines that come with SunOS. Question: Does Minix provide RPC support? Comments and hints requested. \sfm
fanj%remb6489.wpd.sgi.com@sgi.com (Fan Jiao 9U-510 x1615) (11/02/90)
Yes. In the 1.5 dist, the kernel code to support RPC is in /usr/src/amoeba. It supports popular Ethernet boards, like WD's products. Fan Jiao(Chiao) - I speak for myself and sometimes, my dog only.