Re: Network the II?

[wsmith@NOSPAM.ctron.com (Will Smith)]

On Fri, 28 Aug 1998 08:08:58 -0400, Anthony Politz
<ajpolitz@bellatlantic.net> wrote:

|>With regards to networking the //, does any know of a program that was
|>written for DOS to make it AppleTalk capatible. Here is my problem :
|>
|>I have a Pent 133, I am currently running NT on it with Mac Support. It
|>works pretty well but not as well as Netware (The KING of network OS's).

NT?  you don't like your system, do you?

|>The GS cannot talk via ethernet.

the problem isn't that it CAN'T (as in technically impossible), but
that it doesn't have the INTERFACE to do it.  if there was a connector
that we could wire to Ethernet, i'm sure that it would have been tried
and that there would be a driver out by now....

|> I would like to run an Apple // support
|>BBS on the Pent 133. Most of the real good BBS systems run very well
|>under DOS.

what program are you planning to use?

|>I would like to run the Pent 133 on Caldera dos 7.02 ( Old
|>Novell DOS with a twist ). It has the capabilities of running 16 apps at
|>a time. One of which I would like to be an AppleTalk server for DOS.

ummmm...  maybe i missed something, but doesn't Caldera DOS do TASK
SWITCHING, not MULTITASKING?  as i understood it (about a year ago,
when i played with it), anything that is running in the background is
effectively put on hold until the next time you switch to it...  it's
great, if you're looking at running a database program and spreadsheet
at the same time...  doesn't work too well if you're looking to
download a file and play solitare at the same time...  8(

|>I know there are modern ways of doing this, but since we all use //gs
|>system and live in the past, I wish to live in the past with the pent
|>133, Mac, //e, and //gs.

heh.  i hate to break your heart, but not everyone that has a GS
"lives in the past"...  i, for one, happen to be of the mind that
there are things that shouldn't be wasted.  i can turn my GS on and
expect it to work as well NOW as it did in 1990 when i bought it.
since it STILL works, it's got potential for use, even if the tasks i
assign it are menial and/or relatively minor.  i live in the
here-and-now, thank you, and i'm sure that there are others here that
share that sentiment.

FWIW, i have my GS connected to my Linux box on a regular basis, via
serial line....  :)

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