Re: [Q] Connect MS-DOS machines to Linux box
Noel Maddy (nmaddy1@biostat.hfh.edu)
Wed, 5 Mar 97 11:50:24 EST
On Wed Mar 5 06:56:49 1997, James L. McGill wrote:
>
> On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, Francis Vidal wrote:
>
> >good day linux users!
> >
> >we have about 30+ XTs on a computer laboratory that is not often used by
> >students and we want to connect them to a linux box running Slackware96.
>
> That is a shame. Linux requires at least a 386 to run.
> You could setup a serial port server, and run the XT's
> (running a communications program) as serial terminals.
> That could make quite effective use of your XT's.
>
> But I believe ethernet is out of the question.
Not necessarily. I've got a bunch of old 286 PS/2's that I'm using
the Clarkston packet drivers and NCSA telnet to let them use
Ethernet to access a Unix server. Works quite well (and cheaply, too).
[not really Linux-specific, so I won't go into any details on the list...]
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Noel Maddy (ncm@biostat.hfh.edu)