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From: balzer@frambo.dec.com (Christian Balzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Networking/ArcNet
Summary: Nice, but needed some more work.
Keywords: I've seen it :-)
Message-ID: <3486@shlump.dec.com>
Date: 11 Jul 89 13:39:06 GMT
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In article <18361@usc.edu>, papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes...
>In article <787@medsys.UUCP> bbs@medsys.UUCP (BBS login) writes:
>>Availability of the A560 or A2060 cards? 
> 
>At CeBIT in Germany, OXXI was showing the software they developed
>for the Arcnet card. I think at the time it was a "technology preview"
>NOT CURRENLY FOR SALE, etc., etc.   I think this is still the case.
> 
>I believe the CeBIT demos included networking with a PC server running
>Novell netware. Anybody from Germany that was at CeBIT wants to comment?

Well, I'm not sure if I want to, but at least I CAN comment. :-)

But first of Marco, if you want some responses from Germany or other parts
of the world, how about setting this ridiculous "Distribution:" field to 
a value like "net" or "world"? I get News from an US site, but "regular"
UseNetters over here never saw your question!
-Climbing on soapbox-
PLUUUHEEEZEEE, for the sake of the world wide Amiga community, don't set 
your distribution field to such backwater places like us,na, etc.
Thank you for your support. :-)
-Stepping down-

Where was I before that passionate urges swept me away? Ah, the ArcNet stuff.

Yes, I saw the setup at CeBIT (this was on the 2nd floor of the booth and not
for the general public, but being a CBM employee during CeBIT's has it's 
advantages...)
The setup consisted of one PC-60 (386 machine by CBM) acting as fileserver
and an A2500 and A500 connected to it with the above mentioned cards.
The whole shebang worked quite well and relativly fast, the remote disks
showed nicely as icons, etc...
The problem with it (at that time) was that you needed a PC (I've to wash 
my mouth soon) as fileserver.
Hopefully someone from CBM with more knowledge and the right to share it
with us can shed some more light on this.

Regards,

- <CB>
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