Path: utzoo!censor!hugh
From: hugh@censor.UUCP (Hugh Gamble)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Accessing PC cards from Amiga (also, NFS)?
Summary: PC side ethernet on A2000
Keywords: BridgeBoard, PC, Amiga, Ethernet, NFS, Ameristar
Message-ID: <283@censor.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 89 23:29:11 GMT
References: <2482@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <86118@sun.uucp>
Organization: Bell Canada, Business Development, Toronto
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In article <86118@sun.uucp>, cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes:
> In article <2482@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> (Michael A. Garvin) writes:
> Paraphrased : "Can you accesses NFS via the janus.library ?" and
>               "What do you think of the Ameristar product ?"
> 
> Yes, I suppose your could access NFS partitions via a PC-NFS setup.
> You would have get PC-NFS running first (using autoexec.bat) on the
> PC side, then use Jlink or whatever on the Amiga side to connect to
> it. However when you realize that the cost of PC-NFS is the same as
> Amiga-NFS (which includes the hardware) you would note that the 
> native Amiga-NFS is the way to go. I use Amiga-NFS here at Sun and
... 
> --Chuck McManis
> uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis   BIX: cmcmanis  ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com
> These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.

Good PC ethernet cards are dirt cheap, and there's lots of networking S/W
out there besides PC-NFS.  Certainly for Amiga only people the Amiga 
side is the cleanest way to go & the only vendor so far seems to be
Ameristar.

If you're close enough to the real world :-) that you have to deal with
PCs you certainly can do things from the PC side of a 2000 with bridge
board.  One company who has S/W to do just that is LANware.  I'll
try to look up their address & phone # for anyone who would like more
(commercial or otherwise) info.

I have no connection with LANware & haven't seen a demo yet, but they
had a good excuse for using the PC side & it sounds like they did a
reasonable job.

-- 
Hugh D. Gamble  (416) 581-4354  {lsuc, utzoo}!censor!hugh  (Std. Disclaimers)
I can push any computer to its limits.
Any computer can push me to *my* limits.