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- From: soft-logik@cup.portal.com (Kevin W Davidson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Twin: Amiga<>PC networking?
- Message-ID: <63127@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 16:33:15 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Jul30.122827.25737@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- >About two and a half years ago I asked a question here about whether
- >or not it was possible to network a little laptop I had without
- >a hard drive to the Amiga, something I didn't think should be that dif-
- >ficult considering that the Amiga multitasks so well. I received no
- >response, no replies, nothing. Evidently it is now possible to
- >at least -connect- them. I've always thought that something reminiscent
- >of Parnet or Sernet for PC-Amiga connection would be a hell of a utility,
- >since quite a few Amigoids have PC's floating around for one reason or
- >another. I've taken a look at Twin, and it's OK for what it does, which
- >is transfer files, but personally I find it just as easy to dump the
- >files on a 720K disk to move them back and forth. Now if the program
- >allowed you to actually RUN PC files from an Amiga hard drive, THAT would
- >be a hell of a program. Just imagine, one accelerated amiga stuffed with
- >serial cards could act as a server to several PC's, without any special
- >hardware on either the amiga or the PC's.
- >
- >I wonder how much more difficult it is to run a program on a pc from an
- >Amiga hard drive than to just copy it over.
- >
-
- I tried TWIN (I'm running AmigaDOS 2.1 beta) and it did strange things to
- my system. Sometimes it caused big hunks of my device (and assign) list to
- disappear. Other times I started getting recoverable alerts with AmigaDOS
- commands and other things wouldn't run because of not enough memory (even
- though there was plenty).
-
- The sucker is FAST though. I was getting about 9900 characters per second
- between my A2000/A2630 and a laptop (386sx/20).
-
- Kevin Davidson, Asst. Moderator AmigaZone Vendor Support - PORTAL
- <soft-logik@cup.portal.com>
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