Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!psuvax1!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!porthos.rutgers.edu!mende From: mende@porthos.rutgers.edu (Bob Mende Pie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Amiga Networking Keywords: Amiga,Networking,re-invention,wheels,bricks against my head,rjgumby Message-ID: Date: 15 May 88 14:50:20 GMT References: <268@unocss.UUCP> <2461@louie.udel.EDU> Organization: Yows `R' us Lines: 21 I agree with Ron, the most important thing for a network for the amiga is *COMPATIBILITY* One of the new keywords in the computer world is NETWORK. And the biggest kind of network is TCP/IP network. TCP/IP is the standard network of all BSD unix machines. Soon it will be the standard for at&t unix as well. VMS versions of TCP/IP are available from many places (rumor has it that this will include DEC in the future). It is the type of network that most of the IBM/PC's use. In other words, it is a standard. With the slip drivers, you can do lots of useful things just by connecting to a serial port of a machine, or a terminal server (I do this). If you get a true ethernet card (ameristar has a nice zorro ethernet card), then you will get very high speeds. TCP/IP has lots of error correction built into it. I see any other choice as a nearsighted mistake. /Bob... -- {...}!rutgers!mende mende@aramis.rutgers.edu mende@zodiac.bitnet Didn't I buy a 1951 Packard from you last March in Cairo?