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In article <1992Dec30.175909.2268@zooid.guild.org>, kovarski@zooid.guild.org (Mark Kovarski) writes:
> 
> Has anyone out here experiemented with TCP/IP for the Atari ST. I remember
> seeing a file on a german FTP site that was called, I believe, TCP_IP.LZH.
> How does it implement TCP/IP? Is it done via the RS-232 port? What I want
> to eventually do is to network my PCs with the Atari that I have.

I have been thinking about the same thing. I know there are Ethernet 
cards for various ST-models in Germany, but I think that most of them 
are for Megas (ie expansion bus machines).

The thought that struck me the other day (it did not hurt ;-) was that 
there are many "pocket" LAN adapters available for portable PCs. These 
plug onto the parallel port and supply a Token Ring or Ethernet 
(Thinwire or 10BaseT) connection.

Now an ST could not use the PC drivers which are supplied with the 
adapter, but the hardware could be of use even for my old 1040 STF. 
Has anyone looked at what is required to drive one of these adapters, 
and worked out what would be required to drive it though the ST 
parallel port instead?

Personally, I am most interested in a NFS client, as I have just 
collected the SOSS NFS server for the PC, but I imagine that the 
appetite would grow as soon as the function became available.

Is this anything more than an old man's wild ideas?

/Mike
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