Re: TCP/IP for the ST and LAN Server

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From: John Henders
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 00:51

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In <1992Dec31.212754.1@seb.se> s19184@seb.se (Michael Evans) writes:

>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.

	I beleive the ST does not have all the necessary lines connected to
the parallel port to make this work. This is the reason that was given
for the lack of a ST <-> Portfolio parallel port link for the when it came
out. 

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