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From: yhe@zippy.eecs.umich.edu (Youda He)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: TCP IP vendor selection
Message-ID: <985@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
Date: 2 Dec 89 03:48:29 GMT
References: <8912011712.AA03174@hp-ses.sde.hp.com>
Reply-To: yhe@zip.eecs.umich.edu.UUCP (Youda He)
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI
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In article <8912011712.AA03174@hp-ses.sde.hp.com> wunder@HP-SES.SDE.HP.COM (Walter Underwood) writes:
>
>   The Distributed Command and Control project (DC2) at
>   NOSC is an attempt to bring Naval command and control
>   systems into the networking arena by frontending them
>   with PC-ATs.
>
>Sounds like you are trying to put a multi-tasking application on a
>single-tasking box.  Though you can write it, NONE of the support
>software will have been extensively tested for multi-tasking.  Have
>you thought about dumping MS-DOS and getting multitasking systems
>with TCP/IP?
>
>Some ideas:
>
>  cheap Unix workstations (HP has one under $5000)
>  Unix on PCs
>  HP1000
>  68000 cards with VxWorks ROM-able OS (Mizar sells these)
>
>The VxWorks stuff looks particularly interesting.  Though I haven't
>used it, I've heard some good reports.
>
>wunder

Have you thought about QNX? it should run on XT, AT and 386 box, multitask,
I don't think they use TCP/IP, PC-AT  is not a single task box, MSDOS is.
We  are thinking of make control, data collection, and configuration on this
network, We haven't start it yet, but decided to go with QNX, if
some one have experience on QNx, we would link share some.


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