rvb@natasha.mach.cs.cmu.edu (Robert Baron) (04/15/90)
The announcement below was posted to info-mach and comp.os.mach earlier this week. It might be time to post it here. To: info-mach@CS.CMU.EDU Subject: Mach available for i386 Date: Tue, 10 Apr 90 18:39:27 EDT From: Mach.Software@WB1.CS.CMU.EDU ANNOUNCING THE LIMITED DISTRIBUTION OF MACH 2.5 FOR THE INTEL 80386 We have a 80386 version of Mach 2.5 that runs on a number of AT clones; Mach is being used at CMU on the following machines: Olivetti M380, Toshiba T5200, HP Vectra RS 25C, Intel 301, and Intel 302. To get the Mach 2.5 for the Intel 80386 you need a Mach 2.5 license which in turn requires source licenses for 4.3BSD and AT&T V3.2. We have limited resources for making the system more widely available at present, but are interested in taking on more sites. To simplify our lives, we are only making this distribution to sites that can access the internet with tcp/ip. We only support machines with: - Intel 80387 hardware floating point. - an AT compatible bus. - WD 1007 compatible disk controllers. The binaries take 30Meg and the kernel source another 15Meg. You should get at least 100Meg of disk. We use 300Meg ESDI drives but ST506 drives work [although slowly]. - Intel iMX-LAN/586 ethernet board (formerly called PC586 or ENET586) or the 3com 501 ethernet board. - high density 3 1/2" or 5 1/4" floppies at 1.44Meg or 1.2Meg, respectively. - {E,C,V}GA and MONOCHROME displays in 25 x 80 character mode. - Wangtek 1/4" standard 3M streamer (optional). - The built-in serial line: COM1 (optional). We use X on VGA at CMU and will be distributing it soon. (It takes up another 22Meg of disk.) We have at least 8Meg of memory on all our machines. A single user system could probably get away with 3Meg or 4Meg unless you were using X with large bit maps. WE DO NOT SUPPORT: - The microchannel bus: IBM PS 2/70 and PS 2/80 and some NCR machines - SCSI disks/tapes/ ... We are NOT ALLOWED TO DISTRIBUTE - NFS for commercial licensees of NFS If your site meets our licensing and hardware requirements, you should ftp the Mach 2.5 I386 installation manual. You may acquire the manual via anonymous ftp at wb1.cs.cmu.edu; it is stored as: - /usr/mach/public/doc/i386_install.{ps,doc} - /usr/mach/public/doc/i386_manpages.{ps,doc} To ftp from CMU: Ftp to wb1@cs.cmu.edu (128.2.250.16), as "anonymous", then "cd /usr/mach/public/doc". You can then use the standard ftp commands, e.g. get, ls with relative path names for the files. The articles are available in postscript(.ps) and ascii(.doc). There is an INDEX file available in that directory. After reading the manual, if you would like to install Mach 2.5 I386, please contact us for more information either at: mach@wb1.cs.cmu.edu mach is read by the Project Manager and the Distribution Coordinator. or at: Mach Project c/o Richard F. Rashid School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890