hp@lanl.UUCP (01/29/87)
Does anybody have any plans to add ethernet/NFS support to Minix?
A network of Minix PC's mounting NFS files would be a terrific
extension to a Sun network ...
...Akkana
akkana%cnls@lanl.arpa hp@lanl.arpa ihnp4!escher!cnls!akkana
Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratorycramer@clem.UUCP (01/30/87)
In article <12034@lanl.ARPA> akkana%cnls@lanl.arpa (Akkana) writes: > >Does anybody have any plans to add ethernet/NFS support to Minix? >A network of Minix PC's mounting NFS files would be a terrific >extension to a Sun network ... At a recent talk Tanenbaum said that folks at Newcastle were thinking of bringing the Newcastle Connection up on Minix. He said that if they do, they'll probably do the ethernet support (if someone hasn't beaten them to it, I suppose). Sam Cramer uucp: {cbosgd,decwrl,hplabs,seismo,ucbvax}!sun!cramer arpanet: cramer@sun.com
lindsay@cheviot.newcastle.ac.uk (Lindsay F. Marshall) (02/05/87)
In article <12408@sun.uucp> cramer@sun.UUCP (Sam Cramer) writes: >At a recent talk Tanenbaum said that folks at Newcastle were >thinking of bringing the Newcastle Connection up on Minix. He said >that if they do, they'll probably do the ethernet support (if someone >hasn't beaten them to it, I suppose). Well, we certainly are thinking about doing something like this, but...... 1) Whatever we do (if anything) it WONT be the Newcastle Connection, but something new using the same sort of principles, and probably without all the stuff for working between different UN*X versions (we are not free to do as we please with the NCX.) A lot depends on the suitability of MINIX for what we would want to do; we have the source, but not the book and so have not started looking at it in earnest yet. However if we do implement such a system it will have the full functionality of Minix over the network, not just file access (i.e. remote execution etc.) 2) We havent yet decided what sort of networking we would want to support. The PCs that we have have no networking hardware of any kind so it is VERY unlikely that we will be producing an ethernet driver in the forseeable future!!! (Of course if someone were to give us some networking hardware.....:-) ) I would be interested to know what sort of hardware people are actually using - please mail me, dont post. One thing that we might do is a VERY simple RS232 based "network" driver. 3) Our aim in all this would we be to produce something that will work on cheapo hardware with cheapo networking which would be suitable for teaching about building various sorts of distributed systems. Similar to Andy`s aim in producing Minix in fact - we dont want to do a GNU type network UN*X. Lindsay ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lindsay F. Marshall, Computing Lab., U of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, UK ARPA : lindsay%cheviot.newcastle.ac.uk@ucl-cs.arpa JANET : lindsay@uk.ac.newcastle.cheviot UUCP : <UK>!ukc!cheviot!lindsay -------------------------------------------------------------------------------