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- Path: sparky!uunet!tension!jbono
- From: jbono@tension.UUCP (John Bono)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Networking? WHY?!?
- Message-ID: <jbono.07v8@tension.UUCP>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 23:09:35 EST
- Organization: High Tension BBS
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- I've seen a few posts up here about how the Amiga doesn't have "built-in"
- networking, and it seems to me that adding networking as a standard feature
- would be a tremendous waste of time. Virtually *no* clones have any networking
- "built in." They all are rather expensive aftermarket options, especially in
- light of the software cost. Macs have appletalk networking, but compared to
- Token-Ring or Ethernet based Networks, apple talk sucks rocks, and is not very
- useful in large environments with heavy network traffic. The only thing I
- would like to see out of C= is a network.device, and a network.library as an
- OPTIONAL feature to the OS, which would include standard drivers for Novell,
- TCP/IP, Vines, Lantastic, as well as some sort of server capability. The Amiga
- does have a multitasking OS after all, and the bus is definitely faster than
- the majority of the "servers" advanced by the clone community. Spending
- gazillions of dollars trying to get 500s, 600s, and 1200s networking is a waste
- of money, as noone I know would want a low end machine like that as a
- workstation or server. HOWEVER, an A2000/3000/4000 based network is a
- different story, because those machines are far more likely to be used in a
- productivity environment.
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- John
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