From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, October 16, 2021 at 9:03:46 PM UTC+11, Rod Pemberton wrote:   
      
   > > I was wondering about the days when people made   
   > > computers in garages. Have those days actually gone?   
      
   > You mean the motherboard for a brand new computer being designed from   
   > scratch. Yes? I.e., you don't mean assembly of an x86 computer from   
   > components.   
      
   I am not familiar with what can be done in garages, I'm   
   just leery of no-one being able to compete with cartels.   
      
   Regardless, there has been a new development. Someone   
   pointed me to the fact that the emulators accepted TCP/IP   
   connections, and as such, even under Windows I just need   
   a small program that connects to qemu etc with TCP/IP and   
   connects to a Bluetooth device on the other side, which also   
   seems to also be able to be done with TCP/IP which means   
   that I can link two PDOS/386 computers via serial port   
   without requiring the internet.   
      
   I need to see what gccwin is capable of doing with regard to   
   these new libraries (winsock2 it seems).   
      
   The computer to computer serial-port-over-bluetooth ability   
   opens up the Fidonet-like capability I am looking for, and I   
   think it is more productive to develop that infrastructure   
   (which is still a mystery - it will be interesting to see what   
   the existing bluetooth file transfer mechanism looks like),   
   rather than trying my arm at BIOS manufacture.   
      
   I might create my own Linux distribution at some point too,   
   to support this limited goal of running PDOS/386 including   
   an effective hardware serial port that will hopefully be able   
   to cross from our house on one side of the road in the   
   Philippines to the people on the other side.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
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