Re: ANN: Web Browser for 8 bit Apple //

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

tturner@ecn.ab.ca wrote:

>: > --> If, by adding a LANceGS card to my IIe, possibly modded - and if,
>: >     by adding some software (installable on my Sider), I could get my
>: >     IIe to be able to share/swap/copy/open files with/between the PC's
>: >     on my P2P network (IOW, add my IIe directly to my network, via/
>: >     through my Linksys Switches); then I would quite likely spring for
>: >     the dollars to obtain such.  Simply because I think t'would be so
>: >     very, very, cool.

The problem is indeed the lack of software for a //e that could support
P2P file sharing protocols.

Others have described how you can access files _on a PC_ with
a networked //e, but it's much harder to get the //e to support
a PC accessing files on the //e.  Symmetrical sharing requires
that both machines be not only clients, but also _servers_, and
that is a big gulp of complexity for a //e--with limited speed and
memory.  I'd love to see this happen, but I'm not holding my
breath...  ;-)

-michael

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