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- From: chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: LET'S RESCUE THE AMIGA!! WAS C= speaks!!! let's spread the word
- Message-ID: <8178@orbit.cts.com>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 06:38:35 GMT
- Sender: news@orbit.cts.com
- Organization: People-Net [pnet51], Minneapolis, MN.
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- jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
- >I posted a question three days ago about networking 6 a500's to a 3000
- >and have of yet only received _TWO_ responses (thanks for your
- >response guys). Maybe this doesn't seem odd to you BUT IT'S DAMN
- >FRIGHTENING TO ME! Maybe it was my fault. Maybe my subject line was
- >too hard to weed through all the C= speaks!!! let's spread the word
- >posts. Maybe COMMODORE'S BIGWHIGS ARE NOT INTERESTED IN NETWORKING. IT SEEMS
- >OBVIOUS AS ACCOURDING TO A POST BY ONE OF THEIR NETWORKING GURUS THEY
- >_ONLY_ EMPLOY _THREE_ PEOPLE IN THIS CAPACITY. It seems to me that the
- >Amiga has and if it continues to be a machine literally kept breathing
- >by ITS CUSTOMER FANCATIC SUPPORT AND LOYAL _GENIUS_ THIRD PARTY DEVELOPERS.
- >Increasingly customers are disgruntled and developers are broke.
- >
- >Oh, BTW, if you're looking to network, the only reasonable soloution
- >is with the amiga implementation of SLIP called AmigaNOS. AGAIN NOT A
- >C= PRODUCT BUT THE PRODUCT OF ANOTHER BRILLANT MEMBER OF THE AMIGA
- >COMMUNITY.
-
- This is hardly true. Perhaps you haven't looked into the Novell Client
- software available from Oxxi (it's being sold by Oxxi, but was originally
- developed by CBM in co-operation with Novell) or perhaps any of the AppleTalk
- networking solutions available. Or perhaps you haven't seen the TCP/IP
- systems that commodore sells themselves. Perhaps you haven't reviewed SANAII
- (Standard Amiga Network somethingorotherthatican'tremember II, the Networking
- specification that commodore has written and published to this network several
- times)
-
- And by the way, "Only" 3 people dedicated to networking? that's good,
- considering there's what only 7 people dedicated to engineering, and maybe a
- dozen to the OS.
-
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