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From: fnddr@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (Rice Don D)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Ethernet (was How much would a TT ...)
Summary: Ethernet: When, where, how much?
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Date: 31 Aug 90 23:12:23 GMT
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In article <5340@newton.praxis.co.uk>, johnr@praxis.co.uk (John Richards) writes...
> ...
>Also "announced" were a low-cost laser printer and thick and thin Ethernet
>connections and networking for Mega STs (called Atarinet).
> ...
>                                      John Richards
A networking product from Atari?  I'd like to know more about this, and soon.
I've almost given up on getting STs on ethernet.  How many other machines on
the market are so totally lacking in connectivity?  I couldn't think of any.
Even the little laptops have the Xircom gadget that plugs into their printer
ports.

I'm typing this on an ST, with a thinwire cable running behind it to the spot
where a workstation will be next week.  When that is up and running, this
ST will be retired.  Other STs now in use will be moving to terminal servers to
be used as terminals.  It is extremely hard to justify buying any new machine
that cannot be networked.  I hope Atari realizes this and bypasses their
traditional one-year post-announcement waiting period and starts selling the
stuff now.  With software...tcp/ip, ftp, telnet, all the usual stuff, please?
Nice and standard.  Nothing weird or mutated.  Please?

Don Rice                                  Internet: fnddr@acad3.fai.alaska.edu
Geophysical Institute                     E-mail:   fnddr@alaska.bitnet
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