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- From: gjocc@brt.deakin.edu.au
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Archie to DOS connection
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.095053.8041@brt.deakin.edu.au>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 14:50:53 GMT
- References: <1992Aug30.094109.8027@brt.deakin.edu.au> <Btt8B2.IJA@ibmpcug.co.uk>
- Organization: C&CS, Deakin University
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- In article <Btt8B2.IJA@ibmpcug.co.uk>, gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
- > In article <1992Aug30.094109.8027@brt.deakin.edu.au> gjocc@brt.deakin.edu.au writes:
- > :I would like to network my A5000 and PC clone together in some fashion.
- > :
- > :I am running OS/2 2.0 on the PC and would like to file serve the A5000.
- > :
- > :One solution would be an ethernet card in each machine and run Acorns
- > :TCP/IP stuff and IBMs TCP/IP stuff respectively.
- > :
- > :The cost of the software and hardware to do this seems to be a little bit
- > :expensive.
- >
- > How expensive? Aren't PC ether cards around seventy quid? That's
- > what I use, with SOSS (Stan's Own Server) - a PD NFS server - on the
- > DOS end. If it's just file transfer you want, any of the free ftp's
- > would do too.
-
- Expensive in total,
- Acorn TCP/IP 200 pounds
- Acorn Ethernet card 200 pounds
- IBM TCP/IP 1.2.1 for OS/2 100 pounds (an estimate based on U.S.A.
- pricing)
- PC ethernet card 70 pounds (your estimate)
-
-
- Hmmm, 570 pounds.
-
- I am after transparent file access.
- I could use SOSS, to reduce the cost, but the Acorn end of the network is
- still a problem .... 400 quid.
-
- If Atomwide are listening, a PC client/server for RemoteFS that works over
- the printer port is just the sort of thing I am looking for.
-
-
- Greg O'Sullivan
- (gjocc@brt.deakin.edu.au)
-
- >
- > G
- > --
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