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From: km@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: KA9Q for Minix
Message-ID: <1989Oct4.022303.863@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu>
Date: 4 Oct 89 02:23:03 GMT
References: <24619@louie.udel.EDU> <1989Sep22.134603.1505@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu> <1990TAR@MAINE>
Reply-To: km@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Organization: Decision Systems Laboratory, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.
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>    I'm not sure as if KA9Q himself didn't slap up a version of net for Unix.
>If he has, and I'm quite sure he did, it probably wouldn't take much patching
>to get it to run on Minix. All it needs is to be archaic as hell and it should
>run just fine under Minix 1.2++.


Yes, a lot of work on the Unix version of net has been done, particularly
by Bob Hoffman, N3CVL. But the problem is fitting it into the small memory
model under Minix. The only way I know to do this is to give each server
its own process. I have a Unix version that is set up this way, but I have 
yet to look closely at the code.


  Ken Mitchum KY3B
  km@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu