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- From: pjs@cais.com (Paul Sadlik)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Amiga Ethernet?
- Date: 13 Apr 1996 14:18:17 GMT
- Organization: Capital Area Internet Service, Inc.
- Message-ID: <1675.6677T602T2358@cais.com>
- References: <3166b2e0@beachyhd.demon.co.uk> <19960408.442310.142D0@ak049.du.pipex.com>
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- > Mathew Hendry <m.hendry@dial.pipex.com> said:
- >
- > Adam@beachyhd.demon.co.uk wrote:
- >: We got a fax through at work today selling all bits of PC hardware, and it
- >: got me thinking. One of the things they sell if a parallel-port Ethernet
- >: card. It's only about 45.
- >:
- >: Now is there /anything/ stopping me from getting one of these and a big
- >: technical book on the Ethernet communication protocol, and writing my own
- >: driver for it for the Amiga? That way you could network any number of
- >: Amigas to each other, to PCs, to whatever you wanted, for 45 a shot!
- >:
- >: What have I missed that's going to mean that this is impossible?
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- > 1. The Amiga's parallel port does not support all the data lines commonly
- > available on PC hardware. This may or may not be a problem, depending on
- > which pins are actually used on the card which you are talking about. These
- > missing pins are what prevents, for example, the parallel port version of
- > the Iomega Zip drive from working on any current Amiga.
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- Any idea whether the the missing lines are supported by boards like the GVP
- IOxtender (specifically)? It seems that enough people have gone to such
- cards (to use high speed modems) that such high speed parallel ports must be
- fairly common for serious users anyway...
-
- Thanks,
-
- Paul
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- Paul Jan Sadlik >Only Amiga<
- Architect Amiga'85 >= Mac'90 >= WinDOS'95
- McLean, Virginia, USA pjs@cais.com
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