Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Status of V1.3
Message-ID: <1988May16.062408.16955@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <709@ast.cs.vu.nl> <4530@hoptoad.uucp>, <1302@uokmax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16 May 88 06:24:08 GMT

> ... if I'm not
> mistaken Karn's stuff contains much of the Berkeley TCP/IP code, just the
> drivers are different.) 

You are mistaken; Phil's stuff is a rewrite from the ground up, although
some of the concepts are similar.

> The main problem is limited address space--the
> original BSD code was written on Vaxen where you can allocate plenty of
> room to mbufs...

However, Phil's stuff was written on PCs, and runs just fine on small-address
machines.

> You'd almost have to add another system process (like FS and MM) just to
> handle the network.  

This is probably the right approach.  What's wrong with it?
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