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- From: markus@beaver.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Markus Illenseer)
- Subject: Re: Networking? WHY?!?
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:20:40 GMT
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- In article <jbono.07v8@tension.UUCP> jbono@tension.UUCP (John Bono) writes:
- >
- > 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
-
- Yes, you are right. But what about those diskless PeeCees with Ethernet on
- board ? They have DOS on ROM and boot the rest from the server....
-
- > 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
-
- Well, Mr. Eggebrecht told us, that from WB 3.1 on, the Amiga's will be able
- to do such 'easy' networking, too. I suppose this is ParNet or SerNet from
- the 'Software Destillery', but a better/newer version. Also, i believe
- that there is no need for a network-card on-board. But as option it would be
- nice. Just plug in. You actually can have that for the machines with slots only.
-
- > 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
-
- Banyan Vines for Amiga ? Wow :) Nice idea :)
- Well, let's wait for WB 3.1. The Novell Client is out anyway (3rd party),
- the TCP/IP package (AS225) is, in the current version, not very reliable.
-
- > 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.
-
- Hm. Are you sure ? Most of them are still stand-alones. Execpt for 'Parties'.
-
- >
- > John
-
- Remember, 25$ costs for simple Ethernet will expand to more than 100$ costs
- for the end-user. 100$ for something not worth it all the time.
-
- Markus
-
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