14 Oct
2002
14 Oct
'02
12:57 a.m.
On 14 Oct 2002 at 1:41, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
It was thus said that the Great Tothwolf once stated:
Also, I was talking about using MINIX as the OS for my Cromemco
Command Center; and MINIX is a somewhat classic *NIX OS. So both the
MINIX factor, and especially the Cromemco angle help keep this on
topic.
I just did a bit of snooping and it seems that although the 3Com
EtherLink II is supported under MINIX, there is no Token Ring or 3270
support. Ethernet is the only network supported.
Therefore, I am now looking at the possibility of using Coherent as
the OS. Hopefully it will meet my networking needs. I really don't
want to go with FreeDOS or MS-DOS actually, since I realized that
there is no login/password feature. I will consider some sort of
minimalist Linux implementation as well. FreeSCO is a prime example
of one of these Tiny Linux systems. However, FreeSCO would not be
suitable for me, as it is intended just to be used as a router, and I
do not think that Token Ring or 3270 are supported there either.
Ah well. Back to the hunt.
-- Scarletdown
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
Hrm, this is getting a little OT isn't it?
Well, most 486 systems are on topic, and the Linux 2.0 kernel is
about
half-way to being on topic so ...