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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AMIGA 2000 and IBM compatability
Message-ID: <1639@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Apr-87 00:49:39 EST
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1639
Posted: Tue Apr  7 00:49:39 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 10-Apr-87 00:31:47 EST
References: <2845@ecsvax.UUCP> <3018@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <1178@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <1178@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> miner@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Richard Miner) writes:
>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!
>
>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.

Please forgive the Sales & Marketing types.  We are quite familiar with the
Ameristar boards.  The came down to demonstrate the side-mount and zorro
card versions several months ago.  We said "please make cards to fit the A2000".
The latest word is we'll have them in a week or two.

We also asked them to think more about peer networking, since not every
Amiga cluster owner is going to have a sun or other NFS host lying about.
After all, you can hang a pretty big disk off a SCSI controller if you
really want to...

>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.

Arc-Net is actually a well establised standard used by a number of hardware
vendors, including some of the PC products.  I'm not sure if it really has
any advantage over the "cheaper-net" implementations, but I do agree that
real ethernet could be too expensive for many applications.
-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
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Commodore, Engineering Department	fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)