Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!dahlia!rsingh1
From: rsingh1@dahlia.waterloo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: NET: NET: NET: NET: NET: (Is the Net: device real?)
Keywords: NET:, net:, net, NET, network, spam, spam
Message-ID: <18897@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 1 Dec 89 23:41:36 GMT
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Reply-To: rsingh1@dahlia.waterloo.edu ()
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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EAT ME

A while back, in the transactor (amiga) magazine (BTW: keep going guys,
it's a great magazine), I read something on a NET: device.
 
This seemed to me, a really great idea to deal with networks and stuff.
 
QUESTION:

Is it real?  Is it actualy going to be sold with some product or something?
 
WHY I ASK:
 
I would like to know how it functions, so I can support it in a really neat
program I'm writing.
 
REQUEST:
 
If those involved, or related to, or even those who know anything about this
Net: device at all could get in touch with me and spill whatever you know
about it.
 
THINGS I WOULD 'LIKE' TO KNOW:

o     What types of networks will this net: device work with?
       (Ethernet? something else?  Serial link-up thing?)

o     How much memory will the network software use?

o     Any bottlenecks in the system that slow the thing down?

o     Any security on files, directories, and stuff?

o     Will it support muliple networks, or printing through networks, or linked
       networks somehow?

o     Cost, and minimum hardware requirements, and ideal hardware setups?


---ASIDE.
     An article in the November 1989 issue of the Brittish Magazine,
'AMIGA USER INTERNATIONAL' titled 'Networking the Amiga' (106), lists
an alternative Ethernet system.  The article 'blurb' about it seems
just about as un-informative as the rest of the magazine (some sort of
quazi-informative ambiguous approach that says something without saying
anything; like most brittish magazines it seems); but I'd like to know
something about how this network 'looks' to the amiga.  The way the mag.
describes it in some sort of hokey setup, with lots of little modules
that make it seem that the whole thing is (like the magazine) not quite
there (not easily accessable)...
 
I hope I am wrong, because I (like so many others) can't hope to afford the
ameristar thing, and just want some simple network that is accessable, and
easy to use.
 
I will keep all mail, and summarize to the net if I find something interesting.

               /Paul Anton Sop (Esquire?).  rsingh1@dahila.waterloo.edu/
              /Graphic Designer 4 Spaghetti Western Words and Images  /
             /100 Kinzie Ave, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, N2A 2J5    /
            /(519) 578-8525/742-0372 (if seriously really desparate)/