Alex Holden wrote:
>
> 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 :).
I didn't think it had any restrictions either... there are hundreds of
different versions so it seems...
I looked at it when starting a stack for the Psion 3c, but decided it'd
be easier to use the model in Doug Comer's books (since they're well
documented, and there are no restrictions (as far as I could tell)) -
there seemed to be a lot of stuff in KA9Q that dealt with making MS-DOS
into something it wasn't. Stripping this out and porting it seemed like
more work than porting Comer's...
The 90%-finished fruits of my efforts can be found at
http://www.gumbley.demon.co.uk/psistack.html
If any TCP experts can get hold of the Psion C SDK and have some spare
time, they're very welcome to help me finish the TCP layer!
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