Retrochallenge, 2005

[Stan Barr]

Hi,

Tim Riker said:

> 
> But existing code can be used, yes? So one could load up a 486 with a
> Linux distro including POP3 IMAP SMTP NNTP FTP IRC HTTP Gopher apps, and
>  be done. Much easier than trying to get a tcp stack working on some of
> the others.

That's too easy, I ran Linux on a 486 for years. 
I also ran KA9Q tcp/ip over packet radio on a 386 with MSDOS for quite a 
while (and I think I've still got the disks somewhere), does that count 
as "online"?
-- 
Cheers,
Stan Barr  stanb at dial.pipex.com

The future was never like this!