Re: [fw-wiz] Exposed serial connection

From: m p (sumirati@yahoo.de)
Date: 09/16/02 

From: m p <sumirati@yahoo.de>
To: John Adams <jna-dated-1032604310.732402@retina.net>
Date: Mon Sep 16 14:51:28 2002

 --- 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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