pcalvin@crocus.waterloo.edu (08/05/89)
Is there a 'decent' networking system available for the ST? I am looking for something that I can hook up a 386 with my ST, either through a SCSI interface or through the RS232 port.. Any help would be appreciated.. ...Phil pcalvin@crocus.waterloo.edu University of Waterloo Faculty of Math
logajan@ns.network.com (John Logajan) (08/07/89)
pcalvin@crocus.waterloo.edu writes: > Is there a 'decent' networking system available for the ST? I am looking > for something that I can hook up a 386 with my ST, either through a > SCSI interface or through the RS232 port.. This won't help you much, but I've just recently been looking at SCSI in general, and it seems to be a small networking system already. You can have up to eight devices on the SCSI bus. There is no restriction as to what function the 8 devices perform, you could have any mix of processors and periferals. The devices arbitrate for bus access as part of the SCSI protocol in hardware/firmware usually in single chip SCSI controllers. All one would have to do is write networking software -- the hardware seems to already exist: such as disk drives with imbedded SCSI interfaces, and the Atari ST to SCSI host adapters that you can buy from places like ICD. It would seem that one should be able to hook several ST's and a disk drive or two together with the right cableing (and some SCSI host adapters for the ST's) with no problems. Maybe write some software to make one ST a file server and the others diskless workstations. -- - John M. Logajan @ Network Systems; 7600 Boone Ave; Brooklyn Park, MN 55428 - - logajan@ns.network.com / ...rutgers!umn-cs!ns!logajan / john@logajan.mn.org -