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From: garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Easy Ethernet Suggestion!
Summary: need an AmigaDos device driver to control pocket transceiver
Keywords: pocket transceiver ethernet next 1000
Message-ID: <1016@nada.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 7 Dec 90 22:09:09 GMT
References: <1885@kluge.fiu.edu>
Organization: UT at Austin, Dept. of CS
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In article <1885@kluge.fiu.edu> icbtl805@serss0.fiu.edu (Hamilton Davies) writes:
>This is a money making suggestion to some developer out there.
>Why hasn't anyone written or modified networking software for the
>Amiga to utilize one of the many 'pocket ethernet' tranceivers
>available for Laptop PCs?  These Ehternet tranceivers plug into the 
>parallel port and allow you to connect to a network.
>
>Personally I would love to be able to plug my A500 into our network
>at my office and use the Sequent UNIX host.  Just think, an A500
>with X-Windows and one of these little pocket tranceivers and you are 
>set!
>
>Come on, somebody do this.  Please?!?!?

I would like to _whole heartedly_ second this suggestion.  I would like
to network my Amiga 1000 with my NeXT (see, not everybody that likes one
hates the other :-)  I can't see buying a harddrive for my Amiga but
I can certainly see using my NeXT as a fileserver (assuming some
pd version of NFS can be hacked to use the driver for a pocket 
transceiver).  Considering the NeXT has builtin Ethernet connectivity,
this could be a _real_ cheap way to add a remote harddisk to the Amiga...
(that is, assuming you already have the NeXT :-) :-)

If anyone knows of an existing AmigaDos device driver to control one
of the pocket transceivers or if anyone writes one in response to this
posting, please send me a note.

If we are going to network the world, we might as well start at home!
-- 
John Garnett
                              University of Texas at Austin
garnett@cs.utexas.edu         Department of Computer Science
                              Austin, Texas