Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!psuvax1!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!clarkson!grape.ecs.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco Subject: Re: Q: how to make home PC an internet node? Message-ID: Date: 16 Jan 91 20:49:54 GMT References: <00942BD0.3790B740@max.berkeley.edu> <196@sungate.UUCP> Sender: @grape.ecs.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) Distribution: usa Organization: /home/sun.soe/ecs/nelson/.organization Lines: 16 In-Reply-To: glen@sungate.UUCP's message of 16 Jan 91 15:59:12 GMT In article <196@sungate.UUCP> glen@sungate.UUCP (Glen) writes: Now, getting a true internet registration cannot be done under Xenix, because it lacks some of the communications systems needed to perform true internet connections. From my experience, you need a minimum 386-based PC, with 2M RAM, at LEAST a 40MB hard drive, and SCO UNIX. FTP to grape.ecs.clarkson.edu, and you'll find that you're wrong. It runs SCO xenix, and it's truly on the Internet... Of course, you shouldn't buy SCO Xenix nowadays unless you have to. We had to at the time, and now it's too costly ($1,000) to "upgrade" to SCO Unix. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) FAX 315-268-7600 It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear -- Freeman Dyson I joined the League for Programming Freedom, and I hope you'll join too.