Re: Update: Win2k to IIgs

[salfter@salfter.ncc74656.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <UtwE7.123047$YL3.35030569@news3.rdc1.on.home.com>,
Tim Haynes <trhaynes@yahoo.SPAMBGONE.com> wrote:
>Well,  there is some TCP/IP driver software that you have to run with the
>card called Marinetti (a bona fide TCP stack, not some dumb client that
>requires something running on a Windows machine to serve it data).  With
>Marinetti and LANceGS, you are really on the Internet.  There's an FTP
>client, and I think a basic web browser for the IIgs.  There is also an IRC
>desk accessor, and an MSN chat client (whoa).

Another possibility would be to throw Linux or *BSD on the 486 that's
gathering dust in your closet and tie your II into it with a null-modem
cable.  This would give you the kind of "shell account" access that has all
but disappeared from ISPs in recent years.  You would have access to all of
the text-mode stuff that's been written over the past several years,
including web browsers, FTP clients, and IRC clients.  There are even
text-mode Gnutella and Freenet clients (though I somewhat doubt that mp3z
would be useful on a IIGS...then again, I used to convert WAVs and play them
on my IIe (!) back in the day, so maybe they wouldn't be so useless after
all).  It might even be possible to do something similar with Windows if you
install Cygwin, but I'm not sure if there's a getty that'll work with Cygwin
(haven't tried it myself, but it's something to investigate if you don't
have a spare machine).

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