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- Path: sparky!uunet!van-bc!jonh.wimsey.bc.ca!jhenders
- From: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
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- Organization: One of these days for sure
- X-News: HERMES MMAIL 1.10 Rev. Dec 15 1992
- Subject: Re: TCP/IP for the ST and LAN Server
- References: <1992Dec30.175909.2268@zooid.guild.org>
- <1992Dec31.212754.1@seb.se>
- Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 16:51:00 -0800
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- In <1992Dec31.212754.1@seb.se> s19184@seb.se (Michael Evans) writes:
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- >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.
-
- I beleive the ST does not have all the necessary lines connected to
- the parallel port to make this work. This is the reason that was given
- for the lack of a ST <-> Portfolio parallel port link for the when it came
- out.
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