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From: sfm@idt.unit.no (Stig Frode Mjoelsnes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Question: Distributed computing features
Keywords: Minix, networking, RPC.
Message-ID: <1990Nov1.143334.653@idt.unit.no>
Date: 1 Nov 90 14:33:34 GMT
Sender: Stig Fr. Mjolsnes
Organization: Div. of CS & T, Norwegian Institute of Technology
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In the Minix Information Sheet of Sept 30 1990 it is mentioned
under 3.1 Additional Minix 1.5 features (IBM version)
- Distributed computing on Ethernet (remote login, etc.)

What's in here?  Would it be applications based on TCP/IP?
And what kind of Ethernet cards are supported.

To the point, my project is as follows:  I have a special
IBM-bus board that does fast modulo arithmetic.  However, my 
workstation is a Sun 3/80 running SunOS 4.03.  Problem:  I want to
do remote procedure calls to this hardwareboard over the Ethernet.
Now I probably could use some public MSDOS TCP/IP software, and try
to set up the MSDOS-machine as a server(-kludge).

Another path would be to use the available RPC Service Library
Routines that come with SunOS.  
Question:  Does Minix  provide RPC support?

Comments and hints requested.

\sfm