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From: rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga networking puzzle
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Date: 30 May 89 21:12:23 GMT
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In article <8198@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green) writes:
>Guess y'all won't be buying Amigas, then. Even if everybody started
>frantically working this very minute, it takes at least six months to
>move from initial design sketch to production, and even longer for
>complex hardware/software intertwined projects. Maybe someone has been
>working on a AmigaDOS-to-Mac/MSDOS network gateway for the last 6
>months and is ready to introduce it tomorrow -- but, if so, they've
>certainly kept mum about it.
it is a shame, amiga has been in the right standard set from the very
beginning, i.e. tcp/ip from Ameristar. But because of the 
weirdo-voodoo Mac-style networks out there everyone thinks the problem is 
the Amiga ... sigh. 
Anyway, get a Kinetics box to take Appletalk to something real. Then 
tie in your A2000s via Ameristar Enet cards. Voila, your Macs are now 
able to talk to a real network and come up to the standard Amiga 
(and Sun, and Dec, and anybody real) has hewed to now for, oh, what, 
2.5 years? 
ron
p.s. Just say to yourself, over and over, 'i hate appletalk'. You will 
feel much better.