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- From: mann@ipacific.net.au (Angus Mann)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AT&T to offer net access for $3.00/month?
- Date: 2 Jan 1996 13:31:09 GMT
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- >rts@nexusprime.org (Ron Shaw) wrote:
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- >> Why would you think a Internet connection would require a specific machine?
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- >You're assuming they don't invent their own wire protocol and supply
- >only this (private) protocol to your house. Someone else commented
- >in a followup that the software to access AT&T's network is Windoze only.
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- >They may not... but then again they may.
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- If it's a direct 'net connection then they pretty much have to use IP for the
- links to the end-users...how else would third-party client software connect to
- any other machine on the net?
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