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- From: Mat Bettinson <mat@cu-amiga.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: AmigaLink alike shareware
- Date: 14 Mar 96 12:57:28 GMT
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- Salutations SERGIO for on the 12 Mar 96, verilly did you scribe;
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- SC> AmigaLink would network my two Amigas by means of the floppy port, but
- SC> it would cost around $300 in the US, which translates to around $600 on
- SC> Argentina (where I live). It is still a lot of money. As the AmigaLink
- SC> hardware fits inside a single DB25 conector, I thought it may not be
- SC> too complicated to develop something alike as a shareware/PD
-
- Size has nothing to do with how complicated the hardware is. AmigaLink is a
- very sophisticated system and yes, I do think it's expensive too but it's
- often the only option when both machines have ports busy AND you need
- something reliable which Pronet, Parnet, ParNFS most certainly are not.
- :-(
-
- We'd use it ourselves only it doesn't work well with one machine using a
- Power/DKB HD floppy drive. :-(
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