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From: FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A2500 vs. A3000
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Date: 20 Apr 91 05:51:12 GMT
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Ray Cromwell suggests Parnet and Sernet and Dnet as answers for my
suggestion about networking CBM machines.  Good point for home use
where getting the system running is half the fun.  But it won't sell
any machines to people except those who like the challenge of getting
the system up and running.  I worked with a secretary today who says
she is an expert with DisplayWrite IV (IBM's laughable answer to 
WordPerfect and Word 5.0).  She needed my help, however, to set up her
PROFILE.PRF so it would recognize her Diablo 630 printer.  This is a
basic installation feature which has a major chapter in the manual.
I wouldn't call anyone who can't set application defaults an expert.
But compared with most users she is because she knows most of the 
keyboard commands and menus and can use the program *WITHOUT OUTSIDE
HELP*.  See?  An expert!  My point?  Appletalk is too hard for these
people to set up.  No way can they attempt something like DNet or
SerNet.  CBM networking should use standards like SCSI, TCP/IP, IPX,
NFS, FTP, (help me here, guys, I'm running out of letters!), well,
you know them better than I.  Let's go for multi-megabyte per second
transfer rates over short distances (any longer and you'll have a 
proper LAN card) with a cable and icon selection.  WEll, maybe a string
gadget or two if we gotta.  :)

Dana Bourgeois @ cup.portal.com