Re: Exposed serial connection

[m p <sumirati () yahoo de>]

 --- John Adams <jna-dated-1032604310.732402 () retina net> schrieb: 
> On 16 Sep 2002, Jonas Anden wrote:
>
> I'd think a Linux box running ssh and a captive shell (i.e. ssh to a
...
> PC around the office that noone's using anymore (even a 286 will do for 
> this job!) and put it into service. 

Eum, that is not possible ... if you can build a MMU yourself and write the
Linux driver for it, it might be possible :)
The x86 processors became interesting for *nix from the i80386 onward. From
that time on there was an MMU (Memory Managment Unit) and other goodies (like 4
GB of memory you can address). But before you had to build some ICs yourself
(like HP and others did) to run something like *nix on it.

A 386 is perhaps possible - but do get a "feeling" like on a actual machine in
text mode, it have to be a 486 (from my experience with crypto on old
hardware).

Just hair-splitting today :)

Marc


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