rick@crystal.UUCP (Frederick Wayne) (08/28/86)
my partner and i are planning to set up a small network (3-10 machines).
we'll be doing database inquiries from every workstation, real-time data
acquisition from some, software development on at least one. we'd like to use
some flavor of Ethernet to do the talking, probably an IBM PC AT clone for a
file server (not locked into either one, though), and--you guessed it--Amigas
for low-cost, multitasking workstation nodes which have reasonable processing
power in their own right. not to mention a reasonable user interface.
"wonderful," you all say, "love to see it," "hope they make it work."
i was afraid of that. has anybody tried anything like this? is there any
remote possibility that Novell NetBIOS or 3Com's Etherseries might chug along
on a Sidecar? understand, we're good hackers, but not fools--we don't want to
develop a whole new network system just because we like Amigas.
so be Phil Donahues out there, help us out. give Amigaland a boost and save us
from having to run to Big Blue!
mail me or post--if i get any interesting replies via former, i'll post them.
thanks,
rick wayne
ps: think I'M nuts? i won't even tell you about how my partner wants an AT&T
6300 plus worked in so he can develop in UNIX...sigh.louie@umd5 (Louis Mamakos) (08/29/86)
Check with Ameristar Technologies, in NY. They claim to have an ethernet
controller, both in the plug-into-the-si-of-the-amiga and 100 pin
expansion bus boards. These are the same people that say they have NFS
running too. They have an ad in the back of AmigaWorld (the world's only
content-free mag.). I've spoken to them about their expansion chassis and
ST506 disk system. Together, about $1K without drive. Hmm...
--
Louis A. Mamakos WA3YMH University of Maryland, Computer Science Center
Internet: louie@trantor.umd.edu
UUCP: {seismo!umcp-cs, ihnp4!rlgvax}!cvl!umd5!louiedaveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie) (09/03/86)
> Keywords: Ethernet,Sidecar,Schizophrenia > Xref: cbmvax net.micro.amiga:2367 net.micro.68k:234 net.micro.pc:2509 > [..] remote possibility that Novell NetBIOS or 3Com's Etherseries might chug along > on a Sidecar? understand, we're good hackers, but not fools--we don't want to > develop a whole new network system just because we like Amigas. > > mail me or post--if i get any interesting replies via former, i'll post them. > > > thanks, > > rick wayne > I'd expect that you could run some Ethernet stuff if you really want to in the SideCar. However, at least one company (can't recall their name) advertised an Ethernet board for the Amiga in the last AmigaWorld. Standard 100 pin AMiga expansion bus thing. It'd certainly be worth your while to check this out before commiting to anything PCish, whether on the SideCar or on a real PC. -- /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Dave Haynie {caip,ihnp4,allegra,seismo}!cbmvax!daveh "I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment." -Gotama Buddha These opinions are my own, though for a small fee they be yours too. \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) (09/05/86)
Hi, I was over at my parent's house last night, and they were playing around with their c-128 on Quantum Link. There is an Amiga interest group there. I noticed that the following company had a little blub up. The only bad part was the price... I think it was something around $700-- but that is about typical of an ethernet board. Claims to be real TCP/IP. Ameristar Technology PO Box 415 Hauppauge, NY 11788 Sorry, they didn't have a phone # in the article. Kind of silly that Quantum Link has an Amiga group, since they don't (at least as far as I know) have a software kit for dialing in from an Amiga. --Bill Bill Mayhew Division of Basic Medical Sciences Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine Rootstown, OH 44272 USA (216) 325-2511 (wtm@neoucom.UUCP)