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Re: ppp on an old amiga -- where to start

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From: Jim Shaffer, Jr.
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 15:00
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In article <4kelge$avl@netaxs.com> darxus@netaxs.com (Darxus) writes:
> My step-dad has an old amiga that doesen't get used, I believe the last
> os version he got for it was 1.3 (workbench?)  -- I haven't played with
> it in a couple years.  I'm very interested in setting upp ppp on that
> system, if it is possible, so I can hook it up to our other computer
> as, basically, a terminal -- I have linux running on the other system
> with a working ppp connection to the internet.

About the only thing I can think of that would work is the AmigaNOS
package, a port of KA9Q NOS from the MS-DOS world.  I don't know
where to find a copy, let alone a current one, and finding documentation
for it isn't easy either.  But it should still be out there somewhere.

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