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including Viterbi, RS and Fano encoders/decoders. All of them run on
modern PCs at speeds orders of magnitude faster than needed for
Microsat data rates. It's time we tried something like this.
Phil
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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 01:14:10 -0400
From: Bill Edwards <bedwards@trytel.com>
Subject: wampes on FreeSCO
Bill Walker wrote:
>
> I received two replies to my recent query about running ham tcp/ip
> under the new FreeSCO OS. One was a helpful report concerning work
> in progress, and the other was basically a flame taking me to task for
> not running Linux instead.
>
> I report that this weekend I managed to make the latest wampes run
> under FreeSCO. (Compile it as though it was a Linux box.) The diffs
> are insignificant, but if someone wants them I'll make them available.
>
> I would still be interested in other packages for ham tcp/ip under
> SCO Unix.
>
> Tnx es 73 de Bill W5GFE
>
Just to let you know that I'm pleased you are able to spend some time
with FreeSCO. A long while ago, (back in the Xenix days) I thought
somehow that there would be an (widely used) operating system that would
expand on the Chromix I used on the Z-80H. It never happened because of
the licensing costs, until Linux made a system available to the masses.
I went to Linux some time ago, but it's nice to see the commercial guys,
finally making a REAL operating system available to Hams & other
experimenters. BTW I am way behind all of you as my Radio interface is
a '286 running JNOS.
Now all we have to do is get Sun to do the same thing with Solaris, and
maybe SunOS, at least for the older Sparc stations that are becoming
available on the used market. What all of this will do is to keep a lot
of comercially unviable hardware out there in the hands of technically
able users, and give us all a lot more pleasure from the Ham Radio
hobby.
73 & good porting to FreeSCO
de Bill, VE3WCE
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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 09:55:36 +0100 (BST)
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
Subject: wampes on FreeSCO
> Now all we have to do is get Sun to do the same thing with Solaris, and
> maybe SunOS, at least for the older Sparc stations that are becoming
> available on the used market. What all of this will do is to keep a lot
Most of those run Linux and OpenBSD too. The sparc hardware is of great
interest for packet radio as the chips on the serial ports happen to be
Z8530's and able to do sync. Thus a baycom modem to a sparc ought to work
nicely without any bit level funny drivers
Alan
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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 07:41:06 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Bill Walker" <bw@student.ecok.edu>
Subject: wampes on FreeSCO
Bill Edwards writes:
>
>
> Just to let you know that I'm pleased you are able to spend some time
> with FreeSCO. A long while ago, (back in the Xenix days) I thought
> somehow that there would be an (widely used) operating system that would
> expand on the Chromix I used on the Z-80H. It never happened because of
> the licensing costs, until Linux made a system available to the masses.
> I went to Linux some time ago, but it's nice to see the commercial guys,
> finally making a REAL operating system available to Hams & other
> experimenters. BTW I am way behind all of you as my Radio interface is
> a '286 running JNOS.
>
> Now all we have to do is get Sun to do the same thing with Solaris, and
> maybe SunOS, at least for the older Sparc stations that are becoming
> available on the used market. What all of this will do is to keep a lot
> of comercially unviable hardware out there in the hands of technically
> able users, and give us all a lot more pleasure from the Ham Radio
> hobby.
>
You're right, of course. I've used SCO at work for several years, and
also at home in a version that I actually bought and paid for. I had
decided that I couldn't justify the cost of updates for the home system
and had reluctantly decided to move to something else. The FreeSCO
neatly solved that problem!
On top of that, my years of "porting" has not been wasted. Everything
still runs like it did, only faster, and with the enhanced environment
afforded by the more modern OS.
All in all, I'm quite pleased. Thanks for taking the time to write.
73 de Bill W5GFE
--
Bill Walker Ph.D.
Chairman, Dept. of Computer Science
East Central University
Ada, Oklahoma 74820-6899
e-mail: bw@cs.ecok.edu
phone: 405 332 8000 ext. 594
FAX: 405 332 4616
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