Subj : Re: Housekeeping
To   : Vorlon
From : Thom Miller
Date : Mon Apr 10 2023 09:51 pm

> 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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