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- From: fasten@zeus.informatik.uni-bonn.de (Bernhard Fastenrath)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AmigaOS 4.x features
- Date: 9 Mar 1996 13:47:29 GMT
- Organization: Universit"at Bonn, Informatik Abt. II, R"omerstr. 164, 53117 Bonn
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- Thomas Karlsen (sledge@algonet.se) wrote:
- : On 8 Mar 1996, John McGinley wrote:
-
- : > Maybe a RETRY/IGNORE/ABORT buttons ,wouldn't that be nice?
-
- : We all know how good that works on a PC >:-) No matter what you chose he
- : asks it again, over and over...
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-
- : > Built in Network support should be in there with maybe WINDOWS
- : > NETWORK and APPLETALK Network compatibility.
- : >
- : > My 2 cents for what it's worth...
-
-
- : Windows Network, AppleTalk network?? Huh? Why? Isn't it enough to use
- : TCP/IP? Apple is heading away from AppleTalk by releasing their new
- : OpenTransport "layer" with the maingoal that you should use TCP/IP.
- : AppleTalk sucks so bad you can't imagine. I know, bcoz I am a network
- : engineer at a place with 250 Macs installed, it's a pain!
-
- : And to implement Windows Network support would be expansive, they would
- : probably want $$$ from AmigaTech to licens that. Why not just implement
- : Envoy into the Amiga OS?
- No, Linux and FreeBSD have SMB support (samba) and it's free (of course).
-
- AFAIK Envoy uses some sort of IP but neither UDP nor TCP. Wouldn't it be
- nice to have TCP/IP _and_ the Envoy transport layer all in one?
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