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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!paladin.american.edu!darwin.sura.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!fsa.ca!deraadt From: deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: [NetBSD] Running on a 2Meg machine. Date: 10 Jan 94 08:14:43 Organization: little lizard city Lines: 38 Message-ID: <DERAADT.94Jan10081443@newt.fsa.ca> References: <2gpi0m$f5b@fw.novatel.ca> <1994Jan10.083325.9481@news.cs.indiana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: newt.fsa.ca In-reply-to: "Ingo Cyliax"'s message of Mon, 10 Jan 1994 08:33:22 -0500 In article <1994Jan10.083325.9481@news.cs.indiana.edu> "Ingo Cyliax" <cyliax@cs.indiana.edu> writes: >This is most definitely the "Timex-Sinclair approach to computing". Yes, maybe someone has a Basic interpreter that will run under NetBSD ;-) You people are sick! (Actually, I believe there is an actual Timex-Sinclair emulator available somewhere on the net -- ask in alt.folklore.computers. I want nothing to do with it :-) >It limped a little on the way up... But, it's not all that bad if all you needed was a network'ed controller of some sort, like a printer server. As a printer server it might be kinda slow; lpd typically runs shell scripts when printing a file, this might be a significant slowdown. This might take some hacking. Here's a few more ideas: router or terminal server use the GATEWAY option use 2 ethernet cards could use ppp and slip on it! rarp/bootp/bootparams/tftp server various network devices boot their kernels using tftpd (this stuff is being incorporated into NetBSD-current now) kerberos master? *chuckle* seriously, i don't know how fast a kerberos server should be name server (ie. BIND) why not? it'd make a great secondary... -- This space not left unintentionally unblank. deraadt@fsa.ca