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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: SilverNet - OS/2 <-> DOS SOLUTION!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.001211.16560@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1gagonINNgn3@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 00:12:11 GMT
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- In article <1gagonINNgn3@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU> locicero-joe@yale.edu (Joe LoCicero) writes:
- >In this month's issue of Computer Shopper, I found a company called "Network
- >Solutions" that has a product called SilverNet ($65 alone) that will
- >(according to the sales rep) connect ANY OS/2, UNIX, or DOS machine through
- >an Ethernet connection, providing printer sharing and file sharing!!!!!
- >Is this the long-awaited solution? Can someone with more money than me
- >PLEASE order this product and give us the review? :) I truly can't afford
- >$65 per node just right now... but it sounds like the solution to ALL our
- >problems!
- >Maybe this product contains the infamous virtual NDIS driver that we're all
- >searching for...
- >Or maybe it just works as client and server under a DOS box...
- >I've been ASSURED, however, that it works as both a CLIENT AND A SERVER
- >on the OS/2 machine as well as the DOS machine.
-
- I think it may be a DOS box product under OS/2, but I can't be sure
- about that. The literature I received from the company was a little
- circumspect about OS/2.
-
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