GBELING@A.ISI.EDU (09/08/87)
hello,
can anyone help me answer the following questions:
a) how small can an unix-system be made which should run on an 80286
processor ( from intel) ?
b) when using rmx (from intel) as operating system instead
are ther the protocols telnet/tcp/ip available somewhere ?
thanks gerd beling west-germany ron@TOPAZ.RUTGERS.EDU (Ron Natalie) (09/08/87)
I know of no RMX TCP/IP implemenations. However, the XENIX (UNIX) for the 286 doesn't really have TCP/IP either. You can buy inteligent protocol cards from a company like CMC (they have the software for XENIX) to talk to the Ethernet with TCP/IP. You ought to be able to write a RMX interface for this if you know enough about RMX. As for how small XENIX can get? I'm not sure. I only had a single memory card in my 310 but I have no idea how much was on it (a meg?). As for disk space, a minimal system comes on a single floppy disk so that you can load in the rest of the baseline system which comes on around 20 360K floppies. This means that the baseline system takes up less than 7 MEG, but you could probably reduce that even smaller by throwing away things like /usr/dict/words and other large systems that aren't used. UNIX also needs somewhere to swap but you can probably get by with a few meg for this. -Ron