gilgalad@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) (03/01/90)
Hi. I would like to get some info from those of you out there who have ethernet boards for your Amiga. First off, how much are the boards? I know of three makes: Ameristar, Commodore (not available, but I have heard that C='s board is just Ameristar's board) and a board from some British firm. I know that Ameristar's board is being marketed by GfxBase with X, but it seems a little expensive to me. How much are the other boards? Do any of them have NFS running yet? They are all 802.3 spec I suppose. Any and all comments are welcomed. Thanks, Ralph PS- Hey, Dave Haynie! Thanks for all the help with the 2630. I appreciate all the info. Got an 040 based system running yet? I know, we cannot refer to any projects ... Did you get my mail concerning IBM's REOS machines? gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu gilgalad@dip.eecs.umich.edu gilgalad@goliath.eecs.umich.edu Ralph_Seguin@ub.cc.umich.edu gilgalad@sparky.eecs.umich.edu USER6TUN@UMICHUB.BITNET Ralph Seguin | In order to get infinitely many monkeys to type 11010 Lighthouse Dr. #234 | something that actually makes sense, you need to Belleville, MI 48111 | have infinitely many monkey editors as well. (313) 697-1048
navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas) (03/02/90)
In article <1577@zipeecs.umich.edu> gilgalad@eecs.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) writes: >Hi. I would like to get some info from those of you out there who have >ethernet boards for your Amiga. First off, how much are the boards? >I know of three makes: Ameristar, Commodore (not available, but I have >heard that C='s board is just Ameristar's board) and a board from some >British firm. I know that Ameristar's board is being marketed by GfxBase >with X, but it seems a little expensive to me. How much are the other >boards? Do any of them have NFS running yet? They are all 802.3 spec >I suppose. Any and all comments are welcomed. > Thanks, Ralph Hmm, along these lines, may I respectfully ask somebody to write to MicroTimes about such things. [MicroTimes is Bay Area specific, I'd be happy to submit an article for some aspiring author.. :)] In the recent Letters column, following a predictable tirade of "don't abuse us poor Amiga owners," the following was printed: [Quoted from Feb 19 1990 MicroTimes without permission] For the record, we [MicroTimes] would welcome an informative article on the use of Amigas with Hewlett-Packard printers, laser and otherwise. To say nothing of the use of the Amiga in multi-vendor networked business environments. Interested writers are heartily encouraged to contact us. --eds. ----------end quote------------- So anyone interested in a little evangelism? David Navas navas@cory.berkeley.edu "Think you can, think you can't -- either way it's true." Henry Ford
dale@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dale Luck - Amiga) (03/26/90)
In article <1577@zipeecs.umich.edu> gilgalad@eecs.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) writes: >Hi. I would like to get some info from those of you out there who have >ethernet boards for your Amiga. First off, how much are the boards? >I know of three makes: Ameristar, Commodore (not available, but I have >heard that C='s board is just Ameristar's board) and a board from some >British firm. I know that Ameristar's board is being marketed by GfxBase >with X, but it seems a little expensive to me. How much are the other >boards? Do any of them have NFS running yet? They are all 802.3 spec >I suppose. Any and all comments are welcomed. > > Thanks, Ralph > There has been a price reduction in ethernet boards available from GfxBase. I know it is not alot but I also felt that $899 was a bit steep for the AIP2000 package. We are now offering the AIP2000 package for $795 list which is $104 off the original list price. We are able to do this because of some new arrangements we have made for getting the boards made for us. The software is the same Ameristar3.0, NFS/Rlogin/rsh/tcp-ip/... etc and supports the X Window System also available from GfxBase. Dale Luck GfxBase uunet!cbmvax!dale boing.com!dale
dale@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dale Luck - Amiga) (03/27/90)
In article <1577@zipeecs.umich.edu> gilgalad@eecs.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) writes: >Hi. I would like to get some info from those of you out there who have >ethernet boards for your Amiga. First off, how much are the boards? >I know of three makes: Ameristar, Commodore (not available, but I have >heard that C='s board is just Ameristar's board) and a board from some >British firm. I know that Ameristar's board is being marketed by GfxBase >with X, but it seems a little expensive to me. How much are the other >boards? Do any of them have NFS running yet? They are all 802.3 spec >I suppose. Any and all comments are welcomed. > > Thanks, Ralph > There has been a price change in the Ameristar Internet Package from GfxBase. Ameristar Internet Software package and ethernet board is $795 now. It was $899 a while back. As far as I know it is the only ethernet system that supports tcp/ip,nfs,rlogin, ftp, tftp, rsh, and X Window System from GfxBase. Actually there is one other software system that supports X from GfxBase and that is Syndesis' TSSnet (DECnet) for the Amiga.