QModem 4.51 Source Code

Re:QModem 4.51 Source Code by grgbrn on Saturday May 03, 2025 @06:24PM (#43882861)

Oh I wasn't trying to reverse-engineer his network from that comment, just saying that this was a thing that was possible and that people did at the time.

I agree it's highly unlikely that the AT was running slirp. Wikipedia says an AT was a 286, so it wouldn't have been linux. Not even sure what the options would have been. Minix? Xenix?

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Re:QModem 4.51 Source Code by spauldo on Saturday May 03, 2025 @07:35PM (#43883236)

QModem ran on DOS, so the AT wasn't running UNIX. It's almost certainly being used as a terminal.

I can confirm that they did run Minix OK, although I remember the network support was iffy at best. We never got it to work at any rate. XENIX would have been hard to get your hands on. I think QNX would run on an AT as well, although my memory might be playing tricks on me there.

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Re:QModem 4.51 Source Code by EvanAnderson on Saturday May 03, 2025 @07:15PM (#43883120)

Xenix definitely ran on a 286. I can't say re: Minix-- I never have used it (though I probably should just to have the experience). I believe there was a Crynwr SLIP packet driver.

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