Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!jade!eris!mwm From: mwm@eris.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: AMIGA 2000 and IBM compatability Message-ID: <3030@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Fri, 3-Apr-87 14:43:24 EST Article-I.D.: jade.3030 Posted: Fri Apr 3 14:43:24 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Apr-87 10:26:46 EST References: <2845@ecsvax.UUCP> <3018@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: usenet@jade.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 28 In article <3018@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> spencer@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Randy Spencer) writes: >I can't get a LAN for my Amiga (who's writing the networking software? I thought you knew this, randy: Ameristar is selling ethernet boards for the Amiga, both as plug-in-the-side and Zorro cards. They also have TCP/IP with NFS (clients, no servers yet). You can't share files directly, but can copy them around without to much trouble. I don't know Appletalk, so don't know how this compares. With the next version, they've promised TCP/SLIP, so you'll be able to do all this magic over your serial port for cheap - or over longer distance than you want to run an ethernet cable (say, from my house to the UCB campus :-). >Seems to me most current Amiga owners I talk to like buying >up, but don't really go for the IBM part, they just want the most >recent machine (I know I do). Yeah, but the latest hardware is also in the A500, as far as I'm concerned. But it _still_ needs more chip memory (I get tired of not being able to move windows....)