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- From: pegram@emba-news.uvm.edu.UUCP (Robert B. Pegram)
- Subject: Re: TCP/IP for the ST and LAN Server
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.172103.7842@uvm.edu>
- Originator: pegram@griffin.emba.uvm.edu
- Sender: news@uvm.edu
- Organization: University of Vermont -- Division of EMBA Computer Facility
- References: <1992Dec31.212754.1@seb.se>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:21:03 GMT
- Lines: 40
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- From article <1992Dec31.212754.1@seb.se>, by s19184@seb.se (Michael Evans):
- > 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.
-
- Not workable because the bidirectional parallel port commo is entirely
- different. You would do better to look to the Mac ethernet boxes that
- can be put on the SCSI bus (assuming you have an ACSI<->SCSI Host
- Adaptor - but why bother with a network without one?)
-
- > Is this anything more than an old man's wild ideas?
-
- No, I think that with the Falcon's SCSI bus, the Mac ethernet box
- makers might be persuaded to make the necessary software available for
- all STs. Here's hoping.
-
- Bob Pegram
- >
- > /Mike
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