Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!peter From: peter@cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au (Peter Wemm) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction Subject: Re: Looking for Packet driver (like slip) to work with RS232 on Amigas Keywords: packet driver amiga rs232 god devil crying entertainment dictionaries Message-ID: Date: 3 Mar 91 13:40:28 GMT References: Sender: usenet@uniwa.uwa.oz (USENET News System) Organization: Curtin University of Technology, Computing Science Lines: 24 silk@dorm.rutgers.edu (Silk Merchant) writes: >We here at Rutgers are looking for a packet driver for the Amiga. We are >running slip (cutcp) on IBMs here and Appletalk on Macs here, and we want >to see if we can get some Amigas hooked into the network. The other computers >are working through RS232 ports or Ethernet cards, and I would assume it would >work the same with the Amigas. Does anyone out there use software of this >nature? Please send e-mail or post (e-mail preferred). Thanks Much. >Daniel A. Turner >silk@dorm.rutgers.edu There are several things around.. first their is a horrible port of early ka9q, and there is also a new version (about 1 month old.. I think) called AmigaNOS (!) Lastly somebody is working on a sort-of BSD compatable system in Australia called AIP. You can contact him at steve@cs.uow.edu.au. It is not finished just yet, but has the most promise of the three that I have seen . (IMHO) -- Peter Wemm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ peter@cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au (if fails, try peter@cutmcvax.oz.au)