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- From: ashw@lr.net (Ash Wyllie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Amiga Ethernet?
- Date: 10 Apr 1996 00:17:32 GMT
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- >Hello all your hardware guys! :)
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- >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.
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- >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!
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- >What have I missed that's going to mean that this is impossible?
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- >.\dam. [Team AMIGA] //\ ad32@brighton.ac.uk \\/
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- Not that I know of... Sure would make a nice shareware product
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