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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Amiga Ethernet?
- Date: Mon, 8 Apr 96 22:10:56
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- 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?
-
- 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.
-
- 2. The Amiga's parallel port is slow - it's certainly not up to the 10Mbps
- required for ethernet.
-
- -- Mat.
-