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- From: Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike Redrobe)
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- Subject: Re: Amiga Ethernet?
- Date: 15 Apr 96 16:01:59 +0000
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- Hi, Mathew Hendry , on 08-Apr-96 22:10:56 you scribbled....
- >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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- I bet there aren't any missing pins from the walker's parallel!
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- >2. The Amiga's parallel port is slow - it's certainly not up to the 10Mbps
- >required for ethernet.
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- the walker's isnt ;)
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- now, if only it had a "computer" case, and a better gfx subsystem....
-
- Mike
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