On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Greg Haerr wrote:
> On Thursday, June 03, 1999 1:36 PM, Alex Holden [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> : On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> : > Keep networking mostly in user space. That btw is also the model things like
> : > the early networking work on V7 unix took.
> : I was wondering if KA9Q NOS might be used as a basis for ELKS TCP/IP,
> : rather than starting again from scratch...
>
> That's a potentially very good idea. KA9Q is big, though, and needs
> compiler mods for bcc in order to fit in 64k.
The individual parts are pretty compact. It's actually a multitasking
kernel with TCP/IP, AX25, and SMTP, telnet, etc. all integrated together.
If you could split it up into bits, it would probably fit within the
limits. Though as Alan pointed out, the license is pretty restrictive (I
had always thought it was without any restriction at all :).
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