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- Short: ParPC, for IBM clones, cut from the old parnet_complete.lha
- Author: BDAASP@URC.TUE.NL
- Uploader: tez@tezboyes.demon.co.uk
- Type: comm/net
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- Text of original readme follows
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- Announcement of PARnet-PC V0.4 on comp.sys.amiga.datacomm at 03-Sep-93
- 23:08:55:
-
- To who is interested in PARnet-PC without extra hardware:
-
- After some long night of programming, testing and debugging (and being
- afraid of burning CIA's), I managed to create a PARnet connection between
- a PC and an Amiga WITHOUT any special hardware. Only a slightly modified
- PARnet cable was needed.
-
- The previous versions of PARnet-PC were not quite user friendly, because
- a lot of soldering experience was needed to build the special interface.
-
-
- The advantages of the new version are:
-
- - It's easier to install. Only a PARnet-PC cable need to be made. This
- cable has on the PC side slightly different connections than on a
- standard PARnet cable (Read the documents carefully!).
- - The transfer rate has been increased with 250%. On my simple 8MHz XT, I
- achieved 5.6 kB/sec. It's still 'nothing' in comparison with a 115200
- baud serial line, but PARnet-PC still needs a lot of optimizing.
- - The kernel code is shortened (more reada move instructions.
-
-
- The DISadvantages are:
-
- - Without the interface you can only connect 1 PC to 1 Amiga or 1 PC to
- another PC. Don't try more, otherwise it will result in 'smoking' CIA's
- in your Amiga.
- - It will ONLY work on BI-DIRECTIONAL parallel cards. CHECK THIS FIRST.
- Direct connections with other cards can BLOW UP your CIA's within a
- second.
- - I've still no source code to the NET: handler and NET: file system, so I
- was not able to port these. The only transfers can be done with TCP/IP,
- using the PARnet-PC packet driver (on the PC) and SPAR V37.X (on the
- amiga).
-
- Anyway, the description for the (old) interface hardware is still included
- for those who want to be sure about their CIA chips.
-
- Since PARnet-PC is BUGware and only interesting for developers, it's no
- where available than on my FSP site (not FTP!) at: 131.155.2.49 port 6669.
- On this site are also SPAR V37.1 (The Sana-II PARnet device driver) and
- some other PARnet utilities.
-
- When someone has the source code to the NET: handlplease send them to me. Only THEN I can make a real PARnet file system on a
- PC (so you can do a 'copy NET:c/dos/command.com ram:' or whatever..).
-
-
- -Sven
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