Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!tmpmbx!netmbx!mds From: mds@netmbx.UUCP (Michael Such) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: LANtastic 3.03: start using ArtiSoft cards, or else... Message-ID: <2106@netmbx.UUCP> Date: 17 Mar 91 17:15:01 GMT References: Organization: netmbx, Berlin, West Germany Lines: 31 In article otto@kipuna.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes: >Today I talked with the Finnish LanTastic retailers, and they told me that >ArtiSoft will sell the next release (3.03) of LANtastic only for use with >their cards -- from this version on, you will need a per-machine licence to >run it with other cards. Good marketing tactics, or what ? That's interesting. I was given a demo of lantastic yesterday and was quite impressed. I didn't like the idea of using the lantastic cards so I asked the salesman about using ethernet/arcnet cards, no problem he said but you may have to write your own device driver - it's quite simple - he said! I'm not new to this game but I don't want to get into the device driver writing business. What I want to do is buy the Lantastic operating system and then use it on some ethernet or arcnet cards that I can get as cheap as possible. Does anybody know anything that can help me? also how about the overall performance of lantastic - is it okey? Any info would be grately appreciated. Mike ee -- Mike Such NETMBX - Berlin, Germany