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echo: lan
to: MIKE BILOW
from: NICHOLAS COAD
date: 1998-01-26 10:58:00
subject: TCP/IP, NT server and RAS

Hello Mike.
25 Jan 98 23:24, Mike Bilow wrote to Nicholas Coad:
 MB> You would probably learn a lot with a Linux machine, and you could use
 MB> almost any old 386 with 8 MB RAM to do it.
Hmmm... can Linux act as a file server for the network?  (NT WS and Win95 
machines)  Also, can it handle having two different NIC cards and two modems? 
(ie, will it complain with non-standard IRQs)  What version of Linux do you 
recommend?  RedHat, Slackware?  Can it be installed over a network (I have a 
CD-ROM drive only in one Win95 machine).  How well does DOSEMU work with 
communications ports?  I run my BBS system, and am a hub, how reliable is 
will things run in a DOS window?
 MB> WinGate is intended as a complete package, and even works on Windows
 MB> 95.
Wonderful.  Now I just gotta figure that puppy out. :)
Thanks a million for all the information.
Nicholas
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