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From: miner@ulowell.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AMIGA 2000 and IBM compatability
Message-ID: <1178@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>
Date: Fri, 3-Apr-87 21:35:48 EST
Article-I.D.: ulowell.1178
Posted: Fri Apr  3 21:35:48 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 5-Apr-87 07:23:59 EST
References: <2845@ecsvax.UUCP> <3018@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: miner@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Richard Miner)
Organization: University of Lowell
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In article <3018@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> (Randy Spencer) writes:
 LAN for your Amiga.  Ameristar has anouced two products, >>In article <2845@ecsvax.UUCP> urjlew@ecsvax.UUCP (Rostyk Lewyckyj) writes:
>   [Asks Commodore what kind of card he can use with the A2000]
>>5) IBM PCnetwork adapter
>>6) IBM Token ring adapter
>>7) 3M Ethernet card
Please, this is the same narrow minded suggestion that came from Commodore 
when someone asked about networking A2000's during the release at the BCS 
meeting.  Try and have both a client and server process  running for one of 
these cards on the PC side of the A2000!

>  I can't get a LAN for my Amiga (who's writing the networking software?  
>Let's use AppleTalk on the serial port!) 
Ameristar Technologies has two Amiga networking products. One is an 
ethernet board with telnet, ftp, TCP/IP, and best of all NFS (Net Work File
System).  The board has been shown working as an NFS client and they claim 
that  a first release of the other software will be ready "real soon now".  
I have ordered two boards for our lab, an A2000 internal card and an A1000 
side mount version.  The board and software will support multiple login and 
remote communication shells.   Best of all I can make the 500 Meg drive on our
Sun look like an Amiga hard disk.

The other product Ameristar has is a non-standard, Amiga specific, cheaper, 
token ring network called ARC-Net.  This will allow multiple Amigas to share
resources an communicate.   We are considering this one for the development
systems at home.

I have not seen any of this software/hardware, but I have talked to people
who have and believe Ameristar is faily committed to networking Amigas. They
can be reached at:  Ameristar Technologies, INC. \\ P.O. Box 415 
Hauppauge, NY 11788.   Phone: 516.724.3344

My only connection with Ameristar is that I am a customer.
-- 
Rich Miner  ULowell-Cntr for Productivity  !ulowell!miner  617-452-5000x2693