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From: jwhitman@STL-06SIMA.ARMY.MIL (Jerry Whitman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Dial-Up Terminal Devices.
Message-ID: <8912131426.AA13304@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 13 Dec 89 14:27:17 GMT
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A friend at work is considering getting an AMIGA for a general use PC at 
home.  One reason he is interested is the multi-tasking capability.
He wants the ability to dial into his AMIGA as a remote terminal user.
The questions this brings are:

1.  What is the cheapest way to get a terminal device with enough intellegence
to initiate a dial-up sequence and properly establish communications?
(Semi-intellegent terminal, small PC [ C=128 or A500], or ????)

2.  What does Amy need to play host and allow the remote user full access
to all the same facilities the local user would have? (Modem & Comm package
are a given)

3.  If the remote were an A500 could it see and use the host WorkBench?
(I rather suspect it would be relegated to a CLI type environment)
Is there anything on the horizon that would allow another AMY functioning
as a remote device to have access to all the AMIGA capabilities (menus,
icons, requestors, etc......)?

These are the immediately obvious issues.  I am sure there are others
and I would be glad for you to point them out, plus any other observations
you may have.

Thanks for the help.  Your answers may generate another AMIGA owner!!

Regards, Jerry.