Re: KA9Q Re: GeeK: Other interesting OS projects

Eric P. Scott (eps+ip16@sirius.com)
Sat, 31 Oct 1998 02:17:02 -0800 (PST)


Suppose you had a PC/AT (Intel 286) with 1MB of RAM and a tiny
hard drive, and someone handed you an ISA Ethernet card and
told you to "do something useful with it." (Hint: visit
<URL:http://www.crynwr.com/> for Packet Driver information.)

The KA9Q Network Operating System ("KA9Q NOS") is one of the
most flexible MS-DOS applications you could use, offering an
assortment of TCP/IP clients and servers. Since the code is
small, and entirely memory-resident, it can be run off a floppy.
(Some servers, like smtp and pop, really want a hard drive.)
Unfortunately, it calls upon MS-DOS for file I/O...

<URL:http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/tcpip.html>
<URL:ftp://oak.oakland.edu/pub/simtelnet/msdos/tcpip/>

Phil Karn licensed the KA9Q code to Telebit for use in their
NetBlazer product.

(Telebit no longer exists as such, having purchased by a German
firm a little over two years ago.)

-=EPS=-