Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!amiga0!mykes From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: IAC (was Re: Clipboard (was Re: The Amiga's Future)) Message-ID: Date: 9 Jun 91 09:09:22 GMT References: <1991Jun8.044840.1404@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Jun8.074935.781@neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991Jun8.084126.3287@news.iastate.edu> <1991Jun8.150550.21859@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Organization: Amiga makes it possible Lines: 40 In article <1991Jun8.150550.21859@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: >In article <1991Jun8.084126.3287@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes: > >> Actually, networking on the Amiga in general is still very, very primitive. >>It is very rare to find Amigas used in a networking environement, while it >>is rare to find MACs not being used in a network. If Amigas are being used >>in a network, they are probably running Amiga UNIX. The networking >>software for AmigaDOS has only been available from Commodore for less than >>two years, and is largely ignored (very few Amiga applications have >>networking-related features). >> > Marc, you've been mixing up two concepts for several >messages now. Just because few people use the thing (in this case >networking) doesn't mean it is primitive. In fact, Amiga >networking isn't close to very, very primitive. In fact, Amiga >networking follows all the standards, from the hardware with >Arcnet and Ethernet, to the software with Novell and TCP/IP and >X11. What more you want I haven't figured out. > -- Ethan > The Amiga Ethernet Network I set up had 7 030 Amigas and was totally state of the art. Every volume on every machine was sharable on the network, including RAM: and floppy drives. Serial and parallel ports were also sharable. It was also trivial to command any of the machines on the network to run programs remotely. Every single piece of software that I ever used with it (and this encompasses a wide variety of apps) used the network volumes as if they were directly mounted locally. And as Ethan says, you can get X11, TCP/IP, and Novell. What Ethan omitted is that you can also get DecNet and AppleTalk, too. And there is also SANA, which allows multiple protocols to be used on the same Amiga at the same time. Granted, the only Amiga networks I have heard about are at SLAC, Commonwealth Edison of Illinois, and a couple of other places. The facts are that networking capabilites for the Amiga are outstanding, but its use is just not common yet. -- **************************************************** * I want games that look like Shadow of the Beast * * but play like Leisure Suit Larry. * ****************************************************