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- From: s19184@seb.se (Michael Evans)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: TCP/IP for the ST and LAN Server
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.212754.1@seb.se>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 20:27:54 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.175909.2268@zooid.guild.org>
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- In article <1992Dec30.175909.2268@zooid.guild.org>, kovarski@zooid.guild.org (Mark Kovarski) writes:
- >
- > Has anyone out here experiemented with TCP/IP for the Atari ST. I remember
- > seeing a file on a german FTP site that was called, I believe, TCP_IP.LZH.
- > How does it implement TCP/IP? Is it done via the RS-232 port? What I want
- > to eventually do is to network my PCs with the Atari that I have.
-
- I have been thinking about the same thing. I know there are Ethernet
- cards for various ST-models in Germany, but I think that most of them
- are for Megas (ie expansion bus machines).
-
- The thought that struck me the other day (it did not hurt ;-) was that
- there are many "pocket" LAN adapters available for portable PCs. These
- plug onto the parallel port and supply a Token Ring or Ethernet
- (Thinwire or 10BaseT) connection.
-
- Now an ST could not use the PC drivers which are supplied with the
- adapter, but the hardware could be of use even for my old 1040 STF.
- Has anyone looked at what is required to drive one of these adapters,
- and worked out what would be required to drive it though the ST
- parallel port instead?
-
- Personally, I am most interested in a NFS client, as I have just
- collected the SOSS NFS server for the PC, but I imagine that the
- appetite would grow as soon as the function became available.
-
- Is this anything more than an old man's wild ideas?
-
- /Mike
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