On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Tobias wrote:
> I remembered reading about that older computers didn't have enough
> memory to handle the TCP/IP stack.
Oops, I wish I'd known that before I used cutcp on my XT for a year.
> -Where the memory limitation is a bigger obsticle than the cpu
> performance, we could use a fast compression algoritm to compress all
> the packets in-memory.
I don't really think this is an issue. Packets aren't supposed to remain
in memory. If you've got a fast enough CPU, you should work on getting
the socket layer getting the packets out of memory as fast as possible,
rather than working out the best way to leave them there.
> Has anyone written a GUI (X or not) that runs under ELKS?
There is a program called Mini-X, which is designed to run under Minix,
which I'm attempting to port to ELKS. XFree has no chance of getting
ported, although I did port SuperProbe.
Davey
