Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att-cb!ihnp4!upba!qetzal!rcw
From: rcw@qetzal.UUCP (Robert C. White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: hooking PC's together
Message-ID: <1305@qetzal.UUCP>
Date: 20 Feb 88 23:07:53 GMT
References: <673@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> <63200030@convexe>
Reply-To: rcw@qetzal.UUCP (0000-Robert C. White)
Organization: Mentor Software, Inc.
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In article <63200030@convexe> loafman@convexe.UUCP writes:
+
+/* landay@cory.Berkeley.EDU.Sun.COM writes... */
+/* ---------- "hooking PC's together" ---------- */
+Is there a way to hook to PCs together via the parallel ports?
+(Compaq '386 and IBM PC AT)  I would like to transfer files between
+the two quickly. (and the serial ports are used.)
+....
+/* End of text from convexe:comp.sys.ibm.pc */
+
+Answer: go get a package called the Brooklyn Bridge.  It will allow
+you to hook serial to serial at something over 100k baud, using one

Another product that will do this is 'Duette' from Platte River
Associates here in Denver. We have this product and it transfers
files at the rate of about 119,000 baud. That is not a typo.
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