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From: rick@crys.WISC.EDU (Frederick Wayne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: SideCar question
Message-ID: <200@crys.WISC.EDU>
Date: Thu, 4-Dec-86 14:20:10 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  4 14:20:10 1986
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Keywords: Ethernet, networks, IBM

i'm very interested in networking amigas; the application i  have
in mind practically demands some degree of IBM compatibility.

here's the $10,000 question: can i  drop  an  IBM-style  Ethernet
card into a sidecar and run amigas as netBIOS-compatible worksta-
tions?  this would open up a whole  new  world  of  software  and
hardware  to  my  application.   my alternatives are 1) going all
Amiga, which means lots of custom stuff (when was the  last  time
you saw a real-time data acquisition pkg for the critter?) and 2)
going all clone, which loses multitasking,  large  linear  memory
space, and class.

and here's an idea which i give away for free, since the develop-
ment would be--well, let's say a little messy:  if you had a mul-
titasking machine which has the aforementioned large  linear  ad-
dress  space,  and it could use a high-powered processor like the
68020...can you say "network server?"   i  knew  you could.   
problems:  hard disk availability, lack of acceptance in
major network markets.

but fun.  anybody wanna comment?  feel free  to  post,  the  last
time  i  asked  this style of question i got only a few (but very
good) responses.

rick wayne rick@crys.wisc.edu