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- From: Terrance Richard Boyes <tez@pierrot.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Home Network
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- Date: Tue, 2 Apr 96 19:44:26 +0000 (GMT)
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- Rhiannon Macfie (rhiannon@llais.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- >
- > At home, between us, we have:
- >
- > PC Pentium
- > PC 486
-
- These are the easy, and cheap, two. A couple of ISA Ethernet cards should
- cost less than 50UKP.
- >
- > Amiga A500+ (I`m willing to bring my 4000 home if absolutely necessary,
- > but if there`s a way of getting the 500 in I`d rather that)
-
- AFAIK there's no Ethernet for the A500, so it's either parallel or serial
- cable time. And for proper networking that means TCP/IP, preferably with
- NFS, oh, and you'll probably find the telser.device handy.
-
- > Psion 3a
-
- The best you'll be able to do with this would be to mount it as a device on
- the Amiga, probably... Though there are rumours of a TCP/IP stack in
- development...
-
- > Amstrad PCW8512 (yes we do still use it :)
-
- Probably not easily. You may have to delve into the intricacies of CP/M just
- to transfer files over a serial link.
-
- > Amstrad Notebook 300
-
- Don't have a clue waht it is :), if it's a peecee, and it's got a PCMCI
- card then yep, Ethernet again.
-
- > Is there any way of networking all of the above with printers and modems,
- > and how much would it cost? (You can leave out the PCW if necessary :)
-
- All that's for real networking though, an easier solution would be to use
- Ethernet where possible (and cheap), and use a couple of switch boxes for
- the rest.
-
- PS try in comp.sys.amstrad.8bit and comp.sys.psion for more informed answers...
-
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