On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 1:05 PM, <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:

Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:

> I read the sources to see the TCP/IP support was there (that's the bit
> about adding Berkeley Sockets). I see nowhere that it's excluded for the
> non I/D machines, but haven't tried it first hand. I got interested not
> because of the PDP-11, but because I have an old Rainbow that recently
> started running Venix (v7-based version) and was trolling around for some
> way to do TCP/IP to it (though w/o readily available ethernet cards, I'm
> not sure it is a viable project).

Boy is the memory going. What was the TCP/IP implementation people
ran on DOS to do connections over serial lines? Could that be found
and revived for such a system?

That would be mTCP with CSLIP. And under DOS people have that running already, but there's limitations and it's not designed for a Unix kernel....

Warner