CS_RATH@uta.edu (Omkar Rath) (11/10/88)
Dear MINIX mailwatchers, This is a personal query and those not interested plese delete and read on. I had my first exposure to MINIX while taking an o/s course at UT Arlington, Tx. I got interested and put myself in the mailing list. I see that MINIX has been upgraded to 1.3 from 1.1 (which is what I have got). Not only that I see people writing code for "kermit" etc. for the MINIX. And a few days ago I saw a message (many of you'll must also have seen) about 'Networking performance of MINIX' by none other than Andy Tanenbaum himself. I believe that Dr.Tanenbaum has already come up with a distributed MINIX somewhat similar to his AMOEBA dist. o/s. Now my questions. 1. Has the o/s for MINIX been updated from scratch to incorporate network calls or has some software like TCP/IP for IBM/PC/XT/AT has been interfaced with the MINIX system? 2. Is there such a software package available at all? ( I heard of some DOS based TCP/IP or PC/IP existed - this isnt the one or is it?) 3. Is this the proper forum to address such queries? Thanks in advance for all who take time to reply. Omkar Rath. cs_rath@uta.edu off tel: (817)-794-5137
ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (11/10/88)
In article <5277@louie.udel.EDU> CS_RATH@uta.edu (Omkar Rath) writes: > 1. Has the o/s for MINIX been updated from scratch to incorporate >network calls or has some software like TCP/IP for IBM/PC/XT/AT has been >interfaced with the MINIX system? MINIX 1.3 includes a Remote Procedure Call (RPC) based networking with a simple remote login, remote execution, file transfer etc. It is based on the client-server model that most modern distributed operating systems use, not on TCP/X.25/OSI sliding window protocols. > 2. Is there such a software package available at all? ( I heard of some >DOS based TCP/IP or PC/IP existed - this isnt the one or is it?) The RPC code is part of 1.3, including all the source code. > 3. Is this the proper forum to address such queries? Yes. Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)