Date: Fri, 29 Jul 94 04:30:06 PDT From: Advanced Amateur Radio Networking Group Errors-To: TCP-Group-Errors@UCSD.Edu Reply-To: TCP-Group@UCSD.Edu Precedence: Bulk Subject: TCP-Group Digest V94 #159 To: tcp-group-digest TCP-Group Digest Fri, 29 Jul 94 Volume 94 : Issue 159 Today's Topics: faster tnc-2 (2 msgs) HELP: Equipment needed TCP-Group Digest V94 #158 Xenix computers (4 msgs) Send Replies or notes for publication to: . Subscription requests to . Problems you can't solve otherwise to brian@ucsd.edu. Archives of past issues of the TCP-Group Digest are available (by FTP only) from UCSD.Edu in directory "mailarchives". We trust that readers are intelligent enough to realize that all text herein consists of personal comments and does not represent the official policies or positions of any party. Your mileage may vary. So there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 29 Jul 1994 11:00:59 +0930 (CST) From: rob Subject: faster tnc-2 To: tcp-group@ucsd.edu (TCP Group) Anyone have a pointer to the docco on upgrading clock speed of a tnc-2 (clone) to something higher than standard ? specifically an mfj 1270. thanks ... Rob ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jul 1994 03:06:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Merritt Subject: faster tnc-2 To: rob On Fri, 29 Jul 1994, rob wrote: > Anyone have a pointer to the docco on upgrading clock speed of a tnc-2 (clone) > to something higher than standard ? specifically an mfj 1270. > > thanks ... Rob > PacComm sells a 10Mhz speedup kit for $25. We've used one and it works fine. Be sure to tell them exactly what type of tnc you are speeding up. The $25 is well worth the cost of not having to source the chips and XTAL. There is a cut-n-jumper instructions that come with it. 73/bob ******* Bob Merritt KA4BYP -----\ /----- PO Box 185 > email: ka4byp@netcom.com < Griffin, GA 30224 -------/ \------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 15:26:48 -0400 (EDT) From: wy1z@meceng.coe.neu.edu (Scott Ehrlich) Subject: HELP: Equipment needed To: tcp-group@ucsd.edu The Tufts University Amateur Radio Club, W1KN, Medford, Mass. is in the process of putting together a digital communications network. Their ultimate goal is to permit someone who connects to be able to jump out to anywhere else - say, to Canada, or Chicago - wherever! They also plan to interface the network to the Internet! In order for this to work, equipment is needed. Their cash has been depleted, so any equipment they do get is via donations. Also, since their cash is gone, none of it is insured. If they get a lightning blow, and it all goes down, or if anything is stolen or fails, it's down. On behalf of their club (I am assisting), I am asking for donations of ANYTHING you can offer - radios, coax, connectors, cash for equipment and/or insurance for the equipment, computers, TNCs, you name it. I can be contacted via any of the following means: Internet: wy1z@neu.edu Phone: 617-373-4198 (Northeastern Univ. Amateur Radio Club, W1KBN) U.S. Mail: Scott Ehrlich, c/o NUARC, 503 Hayden, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA. 02115, USA Again, any help with either or both of the above items would be GREATLY appreciated! Thanks much! Scott -- Scott Ehrlich, Amateur Radio Callsign: wy1z wy1z@ka2jxi.ny [AX.25 Packet] How to reach me: wy1z@neu.edu [Internet], wy1z@k2cc.ampr.org [TCP/IP Packet] Boston ARC ftp archives: ftp oak.oakland.edu /pub/hamradio Boston ARC Web page: http://www.acs.oakland.edu/barc.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jul 1994 09:08:04 CET From: "Jack Stiekema" Subject: TCP-Group Digest V94 #158 To: TCP-Group@ucsd.edu >>Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 15:32:16 +0930 (CST) >>From: FREEMANR@dstos3.dsto.gov.au >>Subject: ka9q<->novell >>To: TCP-Group@UCSD.EDU >>I am trying to log on to my novell server with ka9q (initially >>using the novell tcpip stack. This fails for the reason above. >>has anybody managed to do this as I am interested in using ftp There are almost no tcp/ip services on a novell server. Only SNMP is in the standard delivery. There are public domain ftp and resolv nlm's from Czeckia, a rdate (timed slave) NLM from Murkorks, and a unpublished(?) dummy telnet nlm (hello, there is no telnet on this machine) from Novell. Please let me know if there other NLM's i forgot. Kind regards, Jack Stiekema Product Manager Connectivity +----------------------------------------------------+ | Victron bv POB 31 9700 AA Groningen Holland | | Phone: +31 50 446222 Fax: +31 50 424107 | | Email: jack@victron.nl Internet: 193.78.242.81 | | Home: +31 5980 80498 pe0mot@pe0mot.ampr.org | +----------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 14:50:04 -0600 (MDT) From: Klarsen Subject: Xenix computers To: TCP digest Hi guys, a friend ka5oyo has several Tandy computers that run the Motorola 68000 cpu and are loaded with the Tandy Xenix operating system. He say's that these computers are very available for free from business that is switching fast to Sun workstations...hi My question is: does anyone know if there exists a source-code for Xinix nos or even one just compiled for Xenix? I have an Internet account and can go world-wide for such a thing...hi -karl k5di ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 17:49:23 -0400 From: "Brandon S. Allbery" Subject: Xenix computers To: Klarsen In your message of Thu, 28 Jul 1994 14:50:04 MDT, you write: +--------------- | My question is: does anyone know if there exists a source-code | for Xinix nos or even one just compiled for Xenix? I have an Internet | account and can go world-wide for such a thing...hi +------------->8 Don't even think about it. Xenix-68000 doesn't have select(), and you can't implement NOS sensibly without it. You *can* implement NOS under *ix without select()/poll(), but the hackery involved would be enormous. A process for the keyboard plus one for every port, all feeding "packets" in a guaranteed atomic fashion to an IPC mechanism which appears as a single IPC channel to the actual NOS binary. Xenix 3.x (the latest version on the 6000, as I recall) doesn't have such a creature, so use Xenix shared data, semaphores to insure mutex access to it, and a signal to wake up NOS after a "packet" has been queued... and watch out for overflowing the segment! I started to design such a system several years ago for Xenix-286; after determining the above, I gave it up as not being worth the effort. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery kf8nh@44.70.4.88 bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org Friends don't let friends load Windows NT (tnx Sun) A Linux iBCS2 developer ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 17:58:35 -0700 (PDT) From: edwards@asdi.saic.com (Mark Edwards) Subject: Xenix computers To: klarsen@kazak.NMSU.Edu (Klarsen) > > Hi guys, a friend ka5oyo has several Tandy computers that run the > Motorola 68000 cpu and are loaded with the Tandy Xenix operating system. > He say's that these computers are very available for free from business > that is switching fast to Sun workstations...hi > > My question is: does anyone know if there exists a source-code > for Xinix nos or even one just compiled for Xenix? I have an Internet > account and can go world-wide for such a thing...hi > > -karl > k5di > > I ran NOS for a long time on my Tandy Xenix machine. It works fine, contrary to Brandon's comments. I haven't booted the machine since 1989, but if I can get it running again it has a working NOS with SLIP and KISS capability. I have no interest in doing another port on that machine, but I will supply a binary if you really want it. -- Mark C. Edwards edwards@asdi.saic.com Voice: 619-546-6970 Matt 3:16-17,Acts 7:55-56,*John 8:17-18,*John 14:28,*Mark 13:32, *John 20:17,*Matt 12:31-32,*John 17:20-23 (* Red letters) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 22:20:36 -0400 From: "Brandon S. Allbery" Subject: Xenix computers To: edwards@asdi.saic.com In your message of Thu, 28 Jul 1994 17:58:35 PDT, you write: +--------------- | I ran NOS for a long time on my Tandy Xenix machine. It works fine, | contrary to Brandon's comments. I haven't booted the machine since +------------->8 Not impossible, if it was designed from the ground up for a system that doesn't allow either multiplexed polling or asynchronous I/O. I was talking in terms of a transmogrified DOS version like I currently maintain; if I remember correctly, the SunOS versions of NET and NOS were designed to use multiple processes and had little code in common with DOS versions, so those might well port. I don't think WAMPES would, though. On the flip side, the main reason I didn't port one of those to Linux (infinitely easier than porting JNOS) is that they were ugly as all get-out from a user interface standpoint. One could say they combined the worst of NOS with the worst of Unix... Then again, I seem to be the first person to get the idea of emulating DOS-style console I/O with curses in a *ix NOS. Is it *that* unusual an idea, or is it just that most people running *ix NOS just want quick-and-dirty SLIP and ignore the UI? But Olaf asked for permission to add the curses-based console driver to WAMPES (in part leading to my "no copyright, copyleft, copytwisted..." policy). ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery kf8nh@44.70.4.88 bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org Friends don't let friends load Windows NT (tnx Sun) A Linux iBCS2 developer ------------------------------ End of TCP-Group Digest V94 #159 ******************************