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From: ncegeber@ndsuvax.UUCP (Roger Egeberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Senior Project......
Summary: Another network project
Keywords: Network Project
Message-ID: <1827@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 88 16:23:50 GMT
References: <5435@louie.udel.EDU> <5004@garfield.MUN.EDU> <1277@leah.Albany.Edu>
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo
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In article <1277@leah.Albany.Edu> rsb584@leah.Albany.Edu (Raymond S Brand) writes:
>In article <5004@garfield.MUN.EDU>, derick@garfield.MUN.EDU (Derick Linegar) writes:
>> In article <5435@louie.udel.EDU> BPJ0%LEHIGH.BITNET@ibm1.cc.lehigh.edu (Binoy James, Lehigh University.) writes:
>> Here's an idea for you. Find a way to produce a CHEAP version for more
>> than 2 amigas to be networked together.
>
>Connect pin 7, GND, ...    What you now have is a token-ring, just add
>machine addresses and drivers.

Another idea along these lines was discussed several years ago (Oct 1981 if I
remember correctly) in an article in Byte magazine.  It was called ULCNET, for
Ultra Low Cost NETwork.  There was a small circuit that you hooked to the
serial ports on an IBM-PC.  It was set up as a bus network.

I believe that many of the no-slot LANs for PC and compatibles use the same
principle.  Some CS grad students built a box with one of the versions of the
circuitry and wrote some software to drive it several years ago.  I think it
worked okay but the commercial versions were starting to show up and I guess
people lost interest.  The box is still sitting in the basement of my advisors
home.

If the student above isn't interested in this, maybe someone else is.  I think
that the code is still around here somewhere - written in C.  They had some
of the low level stuff done, like building the packets, checking for network
activity, and sending/receiving packets.  At least it would be a starting
point.  I would be interested in working on it, if anyone else is.

PS - Please no flames about using 'four-letter' words here --
     ("Byte" and "IBM-PC"  :-)
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