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In article <m0jXdZE-000029C@ditka.Chicago.COM> kls@ditka.Chicago.COM (Karl Swartz) writes:

>   there yet, and it certainly isn't on the pc532 version.  Unix can do
>   it but at this point that only helps a few Finns.  (No offense.)

We hope to have the pc532 Mach 3.0 kernel included in the CMU free
distribution RSN.

The ux server is unfortunately not free. If you have the Mach 3.0 ux
server for the i386, we'll be able to send you diffs. To get those
sources you first need a un*x source license. Then CMU may be able to
help you with that. The GNU servers will probably be available in a
year or so... (?).

Anyways, to be able to run Mach, a MMU is required. Thus a gx32 is not
sufficient. One possibility would be to put a 532 on the etherboard.
But then it's going to be an "almost pc532" with ethernet. It thus
comes to my mind that instead of building the ET532 a possibilty would
be to make a second revision of the pc532 and put the ether chip
there. This would solve the problem for future pc532 buyers and those
of us who want to get an ethernet card could buy a second pc532. If
the ET532 is going to be as expensive so what is the difference
(except some design work)?

To try to solve the cheap and simple ethernet problem, Jukka Virtanen
designed a daughter board board that would be plugged in the PROM
socket and one PAL socket. It is a four layer board. The National
ether chip was not used because it seems to be very hard to get. We
then found out how expensive it is to manufacture even four layer
boards so the board has not been built. Maybe somebody (George?) could
take a look at that design and evaluate it. This might anyhow be one
possible solution for the ethernet issue.

	Johannes