Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcvax!ukc!cheviot!lindsay From: lindsay@cheviot.newcastle.ac.uk (Lindsay F. Marshall) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Question: Minix and NFS Message-ID: <1767@cheviot.newcastle.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 5-Feb-87 05:02:28 EST Article-I.D.: cheviot.1767 Posted: Thu Feb 5 05:02:28 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 7-Feb-87 21:00:06 EST References: <12034@lanl.ARPA> <12408@sun.uucp> Reply-To: lindsay@cheviot (Lindsay F. Marshall) Distribution: world Organization: U. of Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. Lines: 39 In article <12408@sun.uucp> cramer@sun.UUCP (Sam Cramer) writes: >At a recent talk Tanenbaum said that folks at Newcastle were >thinking of bringing the Newcastle Connection up on Minix. He said >that if they do, they'll probably do the ethernet support (if someone >hasn't beaten them to it, I suppose). Well, we certainly are thinking about doing something like this, but...... 1) Whatever we do (if anything) it WONT be the Newcastle Connection, but something new using the same sort of principles, and probably without all the stuff for working between different UN*X versions (we are not free to do as we please with the NCX.) A lot depends on the suitability of MINIX for what we would want to do; we have the source, but not the book and so have not started looking at it in earnest yet. However if we do implement such a system it will have the full functionality of Minix over the network, not just file access (i.e. remote execution etc.) 2) We havent yet decided what sort of networking we would want to support. The PCs that we have have no networking hardware of any kind so it is VERY unlikely that we will be producing an ethernet driver in the forseeable future!!! (Of course if someone were to give us some networking hardware.....:-) ) I would be interested to know what sort of hardware people are actually using - please mail me, dont post. One thing that we might do is a VERY simple RS232 based "network" driver. 3) Our aim in all this would we be to produce something that will work on cheapo hardware with cheapo networking which would be suitable for teaching about building various sorts of distributed systems. Similar to Andy`s aim in producing Minix in fact - we dont want to do a GNU type network UN*X. Lindsay ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lindsay F. Marshall, Computing Lab., U of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, UK ARPA : lindsay%cheviot.newcastle.ac.uk@ucl-cs.arpa JANET : lindsay@uk.ac.newcastle.cheviot UUCP : !ukc!cheviot!lindsay -------------------------------------------------------------------------------