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From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: (1) applying diffs -- (2) networking under Minix
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Date: 30 Dec 89 04:36:01 GMT
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BALTUCH%BRANDEIS.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu (Jacob Baltuch) writes:
>(2) I vaguely heard that Minix (*) 1.3 has got networking support (amoeba?)
>    Does it support TCP/IP? (If yes has somebody written ftp, rcp, rlogin,...?)
>    Does it support NFS? What Ethernet cards have got drivers written for them?
>    (mine is a WD8003E and I remember somebody asking about it in connection
>    with amoeba...)

No to TCP/IP, UDP/IP, and NFS.  I don't know what ethernet cards are
supported, but I do know that the selection is limited to those that have an
Intel ethernet chip in them.  I don't expect the bulk of the ethernet cards to
work because of the problems I have seen in getting generic Tiawanese ethernet
cards to work with PC-NFS at a customer site.  SLIP has been implemented by
somebody if I recall correctly.
 
     // JCA

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