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- Kimnach@lerc.nasa.gov (Greg L. Kimnach) wrote:
- >>
- >let me rephrase my previous post. what i'd like is a local area network and
- >run something akin to x-windows, so that i could use one amiga as a terminal
- >(control i/o and view) to an application running on another amiga. in the
- >long run what i hope to have is one amiga with a large monitor and a number of
- >other amigas without monitors (they do add up in price and require a lot of
- >space:-) ). the "remote" amigas may have hardware-dependent applications
- >(e.g., par, toaster, a dongled brilliance), but the application is run on that
- >machine, not on the "terminal" amiga. this must be possible!?:-)
- >
- >again, h/w & s/w recomendations are appreciated. i'm currently attempting to
- >download the "arcnet" files from the far too busy wustl site........
- >
- >thanks in advance for any and all advice,
-
- I spent some time on this myself. The parallel-port Arcnet device on Aminet
- won't work. I have been in touch with the original people and there is a timing
- problem that was never solved.
-
- You could go with that Disk-drive network (at $150 a crack), but if you are
- like me, you want CHEAP (so no ethernet either)!
-
- Parnet "says" you can hook up to 255 machines, but gives no example of this,
- and I have heard that there are timing problems with this (contention). Sernet
- is not capable of >2 machines.
-
- The one you might want to try is Pronet. It lets you connect via Parallel or
- Serial ports (or both). Plus it allows a multiple serial card to have that many
- connections. So if you could get an 8 port card, you could connect to 10
- different amigas! It has abilities for running software remotely.
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