ANNOUNCING THE DISTRIBUTION OF MACH 2.5/3.0 FOR THE INTEL 80386/80486 We have a 80386/80486 version of Mach 2.5/3.0 that runs on a number of AT clones and the IBM PS/2; Mach is being used at CMU on the following machines: Olivetti M380, Toshiba T5200, IBM-LP40SX, Dell 316,320 (i386SX chip), HP Vectra RS 25C, Intel 301, Intel 302, Intel 401 and IBM PS/2. To get the Mach 2.5/3.0 for the Intel 80386 you need sign an agreement stating that you will be bound by the terms of the Mach 2.5 license which in turn requires source licenses for 4.3BSD and AT&T V3.2. CMU's licenses are such that we can only distribute code only to holders of compatible source licenses. We have limited resources for making the system more widely available at present, but are willing to take on more sites. To simplify our lives, we are only making this distribution to sites that can access the internet with tcp/ip. HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS FOR MACH ON I386 MACHINES We only support machines with: - either an i386 or i486 processor - at least 5 Meg of memory. We typically use 8Meg - 16Meg. - an AT/ISA compatible bus, or IBM PS/2 microchannel bus. EISA buses can be used but currently none of our drivers use the 32 bit functionality of the EISA bus. - an approved disk controller: (You should get at least 100Meg of disk. We typically use 300Meg drives.) * WD 1007 compatible disk controllers. * IDE disks (these are WD 1007 compatible). * Adaptec 1542B compatible SCSI controller. * Adaptec 1542C SCSI controller is supported by Mach 3.0 only. * SCSI controllers that make disks appear to the kernel as IDE disks, such as on IBM PS/2's. * ST506 controller [Note: they are awfully slow.] - displays: * simple displays in 25 x 80 character mode. * Color SVGA support from XFree86 Release 2.0 which supports the following accelerated chipsets: - 8514/A (and true clones) - ATI Mach8, Mach32 - Cirrus CLGD5426, CLGD5428 - S3 86C911, 86C924, 86C801, 86C805, 86C928 - Western Digital WD90C31 * And the following SVGA chipsets: - Tseng ET3000, ET4000AX, ET4000/W32 - Western Digital/Paradise PVGA1 - Western Digital WD90C00, WD90C10, WD90C11, WD90C30, WD90C31 - Genoa GVGA - Trident TVGA8800CS, TVGA8900B, TVGA8900C, TVGA8900CL, TVGA9000 - ATI 28800-4, 28800-5, 28800-a - NCR 77C22, 77C22E - Cirrus Logic CLGD5420, CLGD5422, CLGD5424, CLGD5426, CLGD5428, CLGD6205, CLGD6215, CLGD6225, CLGD6235 Compaq AVGA - OAK OTI067, OTI077 - high density 3 1/2" and/or 5 1/4" floppies at 1.44Meg and 1.2Meg, respectively. We support but do not require: - Intel 80387 hardware floating point. (recommended) - The built-in serial line: COMi - The built-in parallel port: LPTi - ethernet controller boards (non-IBM PS/2): * 3COM's EtherLink I and EtherLink II (sometimes known as 3c501 and 3c503), * Western Digital's WD8003E and WD8013E ethernet boards. * SMC's WD8003E Elite and WD8013E Elite ethernet boards(Western Digital sold its WD8003 ethernet product to SMC shortly after reengineering the board. This board is called the WD8003 Elite. A recently sampled board seems to work fine, but there have been problems with some early units. (They would stop transmitting after a while.)) * D-Link's Ethernet Pocket LAN Adapter DE-600 * Intel's iMX586 or PC586/ENET586 ethernet board (Now obsolete) - The IBM token ring adapter (IBM PS/2) - Mice * Logitech 3-button mouse * Logitech Mouseman mouse * Microsoft 2-button mouse * PS2 mouse - Wangtek 1/4" standard 3M streamer. WE DO NOT SUPPORT: - NFS for commercial licensees of NFS NOTE: While Mach does not require a network interface for normal operation, our method of installation assumes that you can get the files from CMU to the target machine over the internet. If your site meets our licensing and hardware requirements, you should ftp the Mach 2.5/3.0 I386 installation manual. You may acquire the manual via anonymous ftp at mach.cs.cmu.edu; it is stored as: - /usr/mach/public/doc/unpublished/i386_install.{ps,doc} or - /usr/mach/public/doc/unpublished/i386_osf1.{doc,ps} - /usr/mach/public/doc/unpublished/i386_manpages.{ps,doc} The PS/2 versions supports either a 4.3BSD environment or an OSF/1 environment, so choose the manual for the system that you wish to install. To ftp from CMU: Ftp to mach.cs.cmu.edu (128.2.209.192), as "anonymous", at the password prompt send your Username@site Then "cd /usr/mach/public/doc". You can then use the standard ftp commands, e.g. get, ls with relative path names for the files. The articles are available in postscript(.ps) and ascii(.doc). There is an INDEX file available in that directory. After reading the manual, if you would like to install Mach 2.5 I386, please contact us for more information either at: mach@cs.cmu.edu mach is read by the Project Manager and the Distribution Coordinator. or at: Mach Project c/o Mary Thompson School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890