Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: jsd@pdtm.CE.Berkeley.EDU (Jerry Dimsdale)
Subject: Re: Porting Iserver to SGI
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
Date: 20 Aug 1994 04:31:00 GMT
Message-ID: <3340u4$dgg@agate.berkeley.edu>

In article <777322549snz@aiki.demon.co.uk>,
Jim Dixon <jdd@aiki.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <1994Aug14.212910.20457@wmichgw> 94oswald@wmich.edu  writes:
>>    Has anyone had experience porting iserver?   I would like to put it, and
>> maybe the occam 2 toolset on my SGI.   I plan to hang a link controller chip
>> off one of the parallel ports.   Which bits of the source code would I need 
>> to rewrite?

A straightforward way to extend the iserver to many workstations is to stuff
a PC with an ethernet board and a cheap PC transputer card.  Workstations
all have ethernet and socket libraries.  I did this a few years ago using
FTP's PC/TCP socket library for the PC, but I'm sure you could do it with
some freeware library (NCSA???). 

The hardware can be very cheap: an old 286, a Western Digital ethernet
card, and one of those transputer education kits can probably be assembled
for a few hundred dollars.


Good luck.

Jerry

