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Article #988Re: Making KA9Q's TCP/IP stack available to other programs
From: Robert Mortimer
Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 00:00
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Previously Brian {Hamilton Kelly} <bhk@dsl.co.uk> said:
>In idle conversation the other day with someone who told me he used to
>use an implementation of KA9Q on something *other* than a PC, he
>mentioned that that version could make the TCP/IP stack available to
>other programs. I *think* he said it was on the Amiga, which is why this
>is cross-posted to d.i.s.amiga.
>Is/was this true? If so, was the interface to such use from other
>programs to some recognized (for the Amiga, I suppose) standard?
>It set me thinking that it would be nice to have this with the OS/2
>version of KA9Q; I realize that there's no such hope with the DOS version
>(space and lack of multitasking, other than that provided by KA9Q itself,
>would preclude the possibility), so although I've posted this also to
>d.i.s.pc, it's really only a teaser for that group.
To my knowledge there are versions of KA9Q available for the
following:
Amiga
Atari
Apple Macintosh
OS/2
Linux
DOS
Sun/Unix
I think there are a few others, including HP palmtops, but I can't
recall them off the top of my head. Not all of these versions will
work easily with Demon.
--
RobertM
Demon Internet Ltd
"Trust the computer, the computer is your fiend"
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10bb05,7540cee360052a94 X-Google-Attributes: gid10bb05,public From: robm@demon.net (Robert Mortimer) Subject: Re: Making KA9Q's TCP/IP stack available to other programs Date: 1996/05/20 Message-ID: <31a0781a.11643586@news.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 155876655 x-nntp-posting-host: robertm.support.demon.net references: <832325649snz@dsl.co.uk> organization: Demon Internet Ltd reply-to: robm@demon.net newsgroups: demon.ip.developers