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- From: kcci1@central.susx.ac.uk (Alan L.M. Buxey)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: Any sponsors out there?
- Date: 22 Feb 1996 11:58:41 GMT
- Organization: Institute Of Studies For Advanced Amiga Usage
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- Quixote posted the following:
- : Does anyone know of any companies operating in the UK that might be
- : interested in assisting in the development of an internal Ethernet card
- : for the A1200? I've got a project in the pipeline, but due to financial
- : constraints (I'm a student!), I'm unable to fully develop it on my own.
-
- internal in what way?
-
- will it use the trapdoor?
-
- if so, then will expansion cards be able to still plug in?
-
- if the answer to the 2 above is yes, no (in that order) then you may as
- well forget it, since almost all A1200s in network use are accelerated
- and have extra RAM, and the only way that this is done is via the
- trapdoor.
-
- however, you could ALWAYS approach Phase-5 devlopments and ask if you
- can develop it for the expansion port on their blizzard cards.....if it
- can work out, they will pay nicely (i would presume) and lots of people
- would be very happy! i dont think there are any cards yet out for the
- expansion port on the blizzard cards.
-
- : My project will offer the full 10Mbps data rate of the protocol, at an
-
- that would be very nice.
-
- : the purchase of development hardware (PAL programmer, PCB equipment,
- : etc), or at least access to someone elses
-
- they would have those.
-
- alan
-
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