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From: dan@chemsh.uucp (David Neal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Kernel Sources (was re: Questions on Installing EnterNet Card. (DN3K))
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.145814.5910@chemsh.uucp>
Date: 18 Jun 91 14:58:14 GMT
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In article <9106171410.AA04133@pan.ssec.honeywell.com>, thompson@PAN.SSEC.HONEYWELL.COM (John Thompson) writes:
|> 
|> > I've got an Apollo DN3000.... and a 3com EtherNet Card in hand.
|> > 
|> > What is the next best step to preceed to installing it and getting
|> >     rid of that Apollo Ring Card????
|> > 
|> > Somebody mentioned that I might have to re-compile the kernel...
|> >      Sounds pretty ugly... Has anyone done it before ?
|> Good God, no!  First off, you'd need source to recompile the kernel, and
|> Apollo does not provide source-code licenses to anyone short of God.
|> Second, you don't need to do anything so ugly.  These are Apollos, after
|> all.
|> 

Speaking of sources... does Apollo supply enough technical information
to port a new OS to the box? A quick port of MACH, slap on the unix 
emulation, compile up X and voila! One very expensive X terminal!

Come to think of it, BSD 4.4 on a DN10000... wonder how much
more you could squeeze out of the box by dumping AEGIS?

|> John Thompson

Argh, something tells me I've just entered the flame-war starters
hall of fame.

-- 
David Neal - Unix Contractor at large -- dan@chemsh.uucp - (800) 486-3972
APOLLO: Unix? We can do better than that! ... Just kidding!
DEC: First we swore at Unix(TM), now we swear by it.
MACH: The Unix(TM) of the 90's, it's small, it's fast, and you can't have it.