jwhitman@STL-06SIMA.ARMY.MIL (Jerry Whitman) (12/13/89)
A friend at work is considering getting an AMIGA for a general use PC at home. One reason he is interested is the multi-tasking capability. He wants the ability to dial into his AMIGA as a remote terminal user. The questions this brings are: 1. What is the cheapest way to get a terminal device with enough intellegence to initiate a dial-up sequence and properly establish communications? (Semi-intellegent terminal, small PC [ C=128 or A500], or ????) 2. What does Amy need to play host and allow the remote user full access to all the same facilities the local user would have? (Modem & Comm package are a given) 3. If the remote were an A500 could it see and use the host WorkBench? (I rather suspect it would be relegated to a CLI type environment) Is there anything on the horizon that would allow another AMY functioning as a remote device to have access to all the AMIGA capabilities (menus, icons, requestors, etc......)? These are the immediately obvious issues. I am sure there are others and I would be glad for you to point them out, plus any other observations you may have. Thanks for the help. Your answers may generate another AMIGA owner!! Regards, Jerry.