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- From: val@news.ccutah.edu (Val Kartchner)
- Subject: Re: Systems with networking standard
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.210315.14885@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 21:03:15 GMT
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- jmarin@messi.uku.fi (Jukka Marin) writes:
- : val@news.ccutah.edu (Val Kartchner) writes:
- :
- : > Amiga: The Amiga does allow networking standard if you
- : > consider ParNet and SerNet. They are defacto
- : > standards because third-parties are beginning to
- : > utilize them. (SAS/C allows debugging across
- : > either.) More than two machines are allowed in
- : > the network if you are willing to give up both
- : > ports. However, neither of these are done by
- : > the manufacturer (Commodore). Besides that, I
- : > have a modem (serial) and printer (parallel) that
- : > also want those ports.
- :
- : Funny. I thought there was TCP/IP for the Amiga as well. Maybe I was
- : dreaming last night when I thought I was using TCP/IP on Ethernet
- : boards. I have alse been dreaming about ArcNet interface, DECNet
- : software etc.. Real funny :-)
-
- Would you mind telling me which network interface comes standard with ALL
- machines? (AppleTalk (SW) and LocalTalk (HW) comes standard in ALL Macs.)
- Would you mind telling me one of these that comes standard with any
- machine running AmigaDOS?
-
- : > Is there some hardware guru who could build us an
- : >inexpensive bus type network interface? It wouldn't have to be expensive
- : >or fast, but it should allow aa large number of computers to connect. The
- : >parallel and serial ports are usually used, but has anyone considered the
- : >disk drive port?
- :
- : I feel that a network interface that is slow _and_ allows a large number
- : of computers to connect is not a good idea. It would be great to have an
- : inexpensive network interface which could be used in classrooms, for
- : example, to connect 20-30 A500's or A600's or A1200's to an A3000 acting
- : as a file server. BUT if this network runs at, say, 115,000 bps (moves
- : 11500 bytes/sec minus protocol overhead) and 20 ppl start loading DPaint..
- : It would take over 10 minutes in the best case when no packets need to
- : be retransmitted, much more in the worst case.
-
- A standard network interface that is slow is better than the one which comes
- standard with ALL Amigas; that is none at all. How long will Commodore
- be inferior to Apple in this area? (Right now, I'd settle for a $100
- ethernet board that I had to buy separately. Commodore's price is $250.)
-
- : One problem is that there's no good connector for this kind of an interface.
-
- You see my point. There is NO connector for a network.
-
- : The disk connector could be used for some kind of a network but it would
- : be pretty slow and very limited in all ways. It would also be a good way
- : to burn the Paula chips of the machines.
-
- Many Europeans seem to think that the floppy disk drives runn fast enough
- to load programs. With a hardware guru, we wouldn't burn up the Paula chips.
-
- -=:[ VAL ]:=-
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