Subj : Re: Housekeeping
To   : Vorlon
From : Thom Miller
Date : Mon Apr 10 2023 21:51:41

> OS/2 will run with 8mb of ram... (Used to run it myself back in the day.
> Still have the CD(s).

Yeah, it'll run on 8 MB, but it'll be a lot happier on 16 MB. :D

> What are you using/doing for the network stack?

I'm using mTCP, which is a TCP/IP stack that runs under DOS and uses a packet ¨driver to interface with the network card. Pktmux is a muxer for packet ¨drivers that basically allows you to share the packet driver for a NIC among ¨multiple instances of mTCP running in DesqView DOS windows.

In addition to running tcpser for the two USB serial dongles and shunting ¨telnet connections to the serial ports on the 386, the pi 4 is running binkd ¨and setup to connect to my boss node. Right now it's polling once an hour for ¨new packets.

Anything that shows up gets zipped up and netcat'd over to the 386, unzipped, ¨and then processed by fastecho. There's also a logout.bat that runs fastecho ¨to collect new messages, zips them up into an outbound.zip, and netcat's them ¨over to the raspberry pi, where they're moved into the outbound directory and ¨sent out by binkd.

tldr; I'm making heavy, hacky use of netcat. lol

.... (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nfluence with large hammer.

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