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- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!Celestial.COM!bill
- From: bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
- Subject: Re: TCP on Notebook PC, or SLINK on Parrallel
- Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 16:20:23 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.162023.10097@Celestial.COM>
- References: <410@carssdf.UUCP>
- Keywords: TCP Notebook
- Lines: 21
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- In <410@carssdf.UUCP> watson@carssdf.UUCP (- Self Empl. Sys.Integrator) writes:
-
- :I would like to run TCP to my (yet to be purchased) notebook to load up
- :large directries, 40 Mb or so. I can't use my 8013EPT cards without buying
- :a large, expensive, awkward docking station. SLINK might be ok but I don't
- :know how bad the transfer rate would be.
-
- :Some E-net cards are available for the parrallel port, but I don't think
- :they are SCO TCP supported. I can't see how they could be any faster than
- :a parrallel link using SLINK like lap-link does it.
-
- I saw a Zenith laptop at SCO Forum last August running ODT 2.0.
- This machine had a built-in ethernet card (10BaseT as I remember)
- which was supposed to be SCO UNIX/ODT compatible.
-
- Bill
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