Xref: utzoo comp.unix.i386:579 comp.unix.xenix:7787 comp.realtime:233 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!aplcen!haven!udel!rochester!kodak!ektools!herbert From: herbert@ektools.UUCP (Tom Herbert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386,comp.unix.xenix,comp.realtime Subject: Re: Using UNIX to control experiments with a 386 box. Keywords: Everex 386, real-time, devices, SCO vs ISC, X, VP/ix Message-ID: <2138@ektools.UUCP> Date: 26 Sep 89 18:06:48 GMT References: <32258@beta.lanl.gov> Sender: herbert@ektools (Tom Herbert) Reply-To: herbert@kodak.com (Tom Herbert) Followup-To: comp.unix.i386 Organization: Eastman Kodak, Signal Processing Dept., Rochester NY Lines: 44 In article <32258@beta.lanl.gov> tss@beta.lanl.gov (Timothy S Sullivan) writes: > >2) One of the big worries about choosing Unix is the availability of >device drivers especially for devices that don't have anything to >do with business systems. Does anybody know of existing device drivers >for IEEE-488 cards or image capture cards for either SCO or ISC? > There is a German board, called ines with a driver for Interactive 386/ix version 2.0.x. I do not know who is the US distributor for this board for we purchased it through a German subcontractor. Here is their address: ines - Innovative Elektronik-Systeme Neuenhofer Allee 45 D - 5000 Koln 41 West Germany This board should coexist with an intelligent ethernet controller board such as the Micom np600 running DECnet or TCP/IP. We run ours with DECnet. >4) Is it realistic to run X Windows as the window system for this >machine? Can one pop-up a VP/ix window under X (like one can under >Suntools on the Sun 386i)? Yes, vpix can run on any terminal, a "real" terminal, a virtual pty such as an xterm window or a rlogin or telnet session. You may be limited to text only output since it is running under terminal emulation when it is running in an xterm window. Putting up vpix on your 386/ix system with NFS running, provides a DOS server for any user on any other system on the network that is running from the same NFS server. > Tim Sullivan Also Tim, you will like Unix alot better than DOS for running multi-protocals such as tcp/ip and IEEE488 simultaneously. --TFH herbert@kodak.com ..!rochester!kodak!herbert Tom Herbert Signal Processing Dept. MS 35908 Eastman Kodak Co. Rochester, N.Y. 14653