From: val@news.ccutah.edu (Val Kartchner)
Subject: Re: Systems with networking standard
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 21:03:15 GMT

jmarin@messi.uku.fi (Jukka Marin) writes:
: val@news.ccutah.edu (Val Kartchner) writes:
: 
: >	Amiga:		The Amiga does allow networking standard if you
: >			consider ParNet and SerNet.  They are defacto
: >			standards because third-parties are beginning to
: >			utilize them.  (SAS/C allows debugging across
: >			either.)  More than two machines are allowed in
: >			the network if you are willing to give up both
: >			ports.  However, neither of these are done by
: >			the manufacturer (Commodore).  Besides that, I
: >			have a modem (serial) and printer (parallel) that
: >			also want those ports.
: 
: Funny.  I thought there was TCP/IP for the Amiga as well.  Maybe I was
: dreaming last night when I thought I was using TCP/IP on Ethernet
: boards.  I have alse been dreaming about ArcNet interface, DECNet
: software etc..  Real funny :-)

Would you mind telling me which network interface comes standard with ALL
machines?  (AppleTalk (SW) and LocalTalk (HW) comes standard in ALL Macs.)
Would you mind telling me one of these that comes standard with any
machine running AmigaDOS?

: > Is there some hardware guru who could build us an
: >inexpensive bus type network interface?  It wouldn't have to be expensive
: >or fast, but it should allow aa large number of computers to connect.  The
: >parallel and serial ports are usually used, but has anyone considered the
: >disk drive port?
: 
: I feel that a network interface that is slow _and_ allows a large number
: of computers to connect is not a good idea.  It would be great to have an
: inexpensive network interface which could be used in classrooms, for
: example, to connect 20-30 A500's or A600's or A1200's to an A3000 acting
: as a file server.  BUT if this network runs at, say, 115,000 bps (moves
: 11500 bytes/sec minus protocol overhead) and 20 ppl start loading DPaint..
: It would take over 10 minutes in the best case when no packets need to
: be retransmitted, much more in the worst case.

A standard network interface that is slow is better than the one which comes
standard with ALL Amigas; that is none at all.  How long will Commodore
be inferior to Apple in this area?  (Right now, I'd settle for a $100
ethernet board that I had to buy separately.  Commodore's price is $250.)

: One problem is that there's no good connector for this kind of an interface.

You see my point.  There is NO connector for a network.

: The disk connector could be used for some kind of a network but it would
: be pretty slow and very limited in all ways.  It would also be a good way
: to burn the Paula chips of the machines.

Many Europeans seem to think that the floppy disk drives runn fast enough
to load programs.  With a hardware guru, we wouldn't burn up the Paula chips.

			-=:[ VAL ]:=-
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