15 Jun
2005
15 Jun
'05
5:21 p.m.
On 15 Jun, 2005, at 04:15, Stan Barr wrote:
Hi,
Tim Riker said:
I have an IBM PS/2 286, if I fix the power supply I can boot OS/2 1.3
on it - with TCP/IP and an ethernet adapter.
I also have DB2 for it. so it could be an interesting server.
Unfortunately, I am not on the same continent as it right now.
But - this is all out-of-the-box standard IBM software on unmodified
off-the-shelf hardware, so there is not very much challenge to it.
--
-bv
But existing code can be used, yes? So one could load up a 486 with a
Linux distro including POP3 IMAP SMTP NNTP FTP IRC HTTP Gopher apps,
and
be done. Much easier than trying to get a tcp stack working on some
of
the others.
That's too easy, I ran Linux on a 486 for years.
I also ran KA9Q tcp/ip over packet radio on a 386 with MSDOS for quite
a
while (and I think I've still got the disks somewhere), does that count
as "online"?