do I need TCP-IP ?

[Mark J. DeFilippis]

In article <64 at rsoft.bc.ca>, frank at rsoft.bc.ca (Frank I. Reiter) writes:
> Very soon now I will begin work on a large project which will involve 20
> or so MSDOS front ends talking through modems and direct serial links
> to a 386 Xenix system running some sort of data server.  All interaction with
> the users of this system will be handled by the MSDOS software which will then
> send requests to and wait for answers from multiple server processes running
> under Xenix.

Has it been done before? You bet.  Unix servers were one of the first
uses for Unix systems.  Much of what you want is out there for X.25 and
Unix, but not XENIX.  For TCP/IP I have seen so many horror stories about
buggy drivers from manuf.  that make boards for use with TCP/IP.

Anyone running TCP/IP with decent boards and drivers for XENIX?  I sure
would appreciate a lead in this area.  And while I am asking, anyone get
NNTP to work on these same systems using said boards and drivers?

-- 
Mark J. DeFilippis
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