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From: cb01@cs.vu.nl (Compiler bouw 91)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Question: Networks for ST computers
Summary: is there a reasonable netwerk for the st???
Keywords: network, bionet, atarinet
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Date: 11 Dec 90 13:02:33 GMT
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G'day,

Can somebody please fill me in about the available networks
for atari ST computers? I've been working a while with a net
called ITOS but that _really_ doesn't work! A couple of days
ago I watched a demonstration of the BIO-net: this seems to
work great but is quite expensive (about fl.2600 (app. $1550)
per node) and because my net may grow > 10 ST's I'll need a
fa(s)t server. Summing up interfaces, ST's, drives and the
server I reach the fl.50000 (app. $30000) easily. This, I think, 
isn't worth the bennefit of having bit-mapped-'intellegent'-
ST-terminals over character-terminals connected to some 
bigger server (SPARC stations aren't that expensive!!).
I heard some rumours about ATARI launching their own net...
   ...
   ...
does anybody know anything about it? Is this a regular *ATARI*
anouncement (which means it will be available somewhere in
1994) or is it serious this time?

please, let me know if you heard *anything* (and I mean anything)
about some of this!!

greetings,

	 Joep Vesseur
	 e-mail: vesseur@fwi.uva.nl
	     or: !hp4nl.nluug.nl!fwi.uva.nl!vesseur