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From: rick@crystal.UUCP (Frederick Wayne)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga,net.micro.68k,net.micro.pc
Subject: Amiga as a network wkstation (HELP!)
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Date: Thu, 28-Aug-86 12:43:26 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 28 12:43:26 1986
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Reply-To: rick@crys.WISC.EDU (Frederick Wayne)
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Keywords: Ethernet,Sidecar,Schizophrenia
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my partner and i are planning to set up a small network (3-10 machines).  
we'll be doing database inquiries from  every workstation, real-time data
acquisition from some, software development on at least one.  we'd like to use
some flavor of Ethernet to do the talking, probably an IBM PC AT clone for a
file server (not locked into either one, though), and--you guessed it--Amigas
for low-cost, multitasking workstation nodes which have reasonable processing
power in their own right.  not to mention a reasonable user interface.

"wonderful," you all say, "love to see it," "hope they make it work."

i was afraid of that.  has anybody tried anything like this?  is there any
remote possibility that Novell NetBIOS or 3Com's Etherseries might chug along
on a Sidecar?  understand, we're good hackers, but not fools--we don't want to 
develop a whole new network system just because we like Amigas.

so be Phil Donahues out there, help us out.  give Amigaland a boost and save us
from having to run to Big  Blue!

mail me or post--if i get any interesting replies via former, i'll post them.


thanks,

rick wayne


ps: think I'M nuts?  i won't even tell you about how my partner wants an AT&T
    6300 plus worked in so he can develop in UNIX...sigh.