Subj : Re: Pocket386 is here!
To   : Spectre
From : Tiny
Date : Tue Jul 02 2024 05:20:08

Spectre was heard saying....

 S> If you get the basics of TCP/IP, then KA9Q has a lower learning curve
 S> than linux does.

Honestly I don't remember why we went that way.  I think just because it
was easier as you say.

 S>  Might have been part of it, and or a machine that
 S> wasn't doing anything else? A 386 of pretty much any flavour was meant
 S> to be able to route enough packets for ~10 486 claass systems? Something
 S> like that, I forget.

That ka9q box handled the dedicated 28.8 connection to the internet.  Then
a linux box running a boca board handled the 8 lines we had for dialup
once we started getting clients it became ISDN, then T1, then we were
bought out. LOL



Shawn

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