Re: Easy Ethernet Suggestion!

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From: Jeff Dickson
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 1990 21:45

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In article <922@boing.UUCP> dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) writes:
>>In article <1885@kluge.fiu.edu>, icbtl805@serss0.fiu.edu (Hamilton Davies) writes:
>> Why hasn't anyone written or modified networking software for the
>> Amiga to utilize one of the many 'pocket ethernet' tranceivers
>> available for Laptop PCs?  These Ehternet tranceivers plug into the 
>> parallel port and allow you to connect to a network.
>
>This would be a snap to do once the network software developers support
>SANA. All one has to do is write a network-interface.device for that
>hardware and the protocol stacks theoretically could start using it.
>
>
>-- 
>Dale Luck     GfxBase/Boing, Inc.
>{uunet!cbmvax|pyramid}!amiga!boing!dale

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In article <922@boing.UUCP> dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) writes:
>>In article <1885@kluge.fiu.edu>, icbtl805@serss0.fiu.edu (Hamilton Davies) writes:
>> Why hasn't anyone written or modified networking software for the
>> Amiga to utilize one of the many 'pocket ethernet' tranceivers
>> available for Laptop PCs?  These Ehternet tranceivers plug into the 
>> parallel port and allow you to connect to a network.
>
>This would be a snap to do once the network software developers support
>SANA. All one has to do is write a network-interface.device for that
>hardware and the protocol stacks theoretically could start using it.
>
>
>-- 
>Dale Luck     GfxBase/Boing, Inc.
>{uunet!cbmvax|pyramid}!amiga!boing!dale

	Hows SANA coming along? Any socket libraries available for it?

							Jeff

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Subject: Re: Easy Ethernet Suggestion!
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