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- From: kbeal@rcx1.ssd.csd.harris.com (Ken Beal)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Networking 2 pc's at home, cheaply??
- Message-ID: <1dckllINNkt9@travis.csd.harris.com>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 02:18:29 GMT
- References: <Bx5Fzn.8E8@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: Harris CSD, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
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- In article <Bx5Fzn.8E8@news.cso.uiuc.edu> tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Henderson) writes:
- >I'm thinking about getting a PC for the better half and was wondering if it
- >is possible to inexpensively network 2 pc's. I don't like the idea of having
- >2 of everything which would use up twice the disk space.
- >
- >I'd like to make mine a server(486-33) and then hang a 486 SX or 386-40
- >off of it. Is it possible to give the second pc full use of OS/2 over a
- >small net like this or is this more costly than useful?
-
- How about networking a 486-33 running OS/2 2.0 with a 286-8, running
- DOS? Is that possible? Can we share both ways? Prices? Better halves of
- the world want to know! :)
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