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From: sac@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Stuart Alan Craig)
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Subject: Re: Netware vs. Lantastic, sigh...
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Date: 22 Apr 91 20:00:15 GMT
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mays@panther.gatech.edu (Dick Mays) writes:

>> The Compuad salesperson came back and said, quote
>>   'Artisoft is only going to start supporting their own network 
>>    cards, i.e. upgrades won't be made available to my WD cards!!???
>>   '
>>What? I said.  This is foolish, don't you think so?

>I have no experience with Lantastic, and fail to understand the
>attraction.  Could someone with some knowledge of this NOS
>explain the benefits of this NOS, (and, or problems).

>I understand that peer networking is provided, how much RAM
>is taken from the DOS environment.  Is the product Windows 
>compatible in protected or virtual 386 mode?

Yes Lantastic provides full peer-to-peer networking capabilities which is
very nice in small networking environments.  No dedicated server is required
and you have full access to the devices attached to each node.
The main attraction to lantastic has been its relatively low cost and low ram
usage.  Using their proprietary cards, it only requires about 40k of your
DOS environment, sometimes less.
As of 10/15/90, Windows-386 was not recognized as compatible due to the
diversity of all the products involved.  Lantastic will not recognize a
product as compatible unless it is FULLY compatible.  However, I have 
heard the some people have gotten windows to work with lantastic, but
to what degree I 'm not sure.

-Stuart Craig

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