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From: scott@blueeyes.kines.uiuc.edu (scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: DIRT
Keywords: DIRT, Atari ST
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Date: 21 Nov 90 14:22:43 GMT
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In article <47136@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v070mvl4@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
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>Oh, I now own an IBM.....

But you still kept your faithful old Atari, right?

>Ah the disk drive is the indus GT....great drive, but they went out of business
>]just as the ST arrived I believe.....but did they ever come out with something
>I believe was called the Ethernet?????

Uh, no.

Ethernet is a term describing networking hardware. Originally developed by
Xerox (???), it is now the de-facto standard in computer networking, at
least in educational and DoD computing sites. The majority of the networks 
which make up the Internet are ethernet based. The network I am using to 
enter this message is an ethernet network. Chances are, yours is ethernet, also.

If Indus came out with anything they called "ethernet" (which, if they did,
I never heard of it), they blatantly stole the name (unless, of course, Indus
made ethernet boards for 8-bit Ataris! ;-)

Perhaps you're thinking of something else, like Synchromesh (a feature of Indus
drives which sped up disk <-> computer SIO transfers by around 400%.

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>
>As to the DIRT program...3bit binary number stored in one byte??
>
>if the number is in the last three bits, just 
>
>AND #$10
>that shoulddo it....
>
>
>
>l8r
>ADS'90
>


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Scott Coleman                                                      tmkk@uiuc.edu
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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