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From: karn@faline.bellcore.com (Phil R. Karn)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: more non-resident PC/IP
Message-ID: <1506@faline.bellcore.com>
Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 17:58:04 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 28 17:58:04 1987
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Summary: That's KA9Q, not KAQ9 :-)

> Beame & Whiteside's commercial version also gets everything out of
> memory when it's finished, and that Phil Karn's KAQ9, NCSA Telnet and
> ...oops. I spaced on it. I think there's another one I left out.

That's "KA9Q", not "KAQ9". "KA9Q" is my amateur radio callsign. I wrote
the package specifically to bring TCP/IP to the ham packet radio masses.

My package runs as a user program under MS-DOS. It hooks into a few of
the PC hardware interrupt vectors, so the drivers are also part of the
program.  There's little alternative, since I consider MS-DOS (much like
its predecessor, CP/M) to be little more than a glorified bootstrap
loader.  If you want multitasking (or even the cheap imitation of it I
provide) you have to do it yourself.

You can still do other things under DOS by using one of the commercial
utilities like DoubleDos and Microsoft Windows.  You can then load my
package into one partition and run it almost like a "network daemon".

Phil