Subj : Networking modems
To   : Dorothy Denn
From : George White
Date : Fri Jul 21 2000 01:02 am

Hi Dorothy,

On 20-Jul-00, Dorothy Denn wrote to George White:

 GW>> As you will see from my discussion with Simon Avery the software
 GW>> included in Win98SE will allow _Internet_ access from another
 GW>> computer. A "router" again only works for Internet stuff. It will
 GW>> not allow you to use a terminal program on one machine via a
 GW>> modem on another machine.

 DD> A friend of mine (and Richards') is looking at making me some sort
 DD> of switch box, that might do it.  So I'm hoping:-))

Quite possible - I could build a basic one for you very easily and
fairly cheaply. It does mean an extra cable though...

 GW>> The only OS I'm certain has that capability built in is OS/2,

 DD> I've heard a lot about OS/2, but never really understood it.
 DD> Though in my BBS Chat echo, someone was saying "what a pity about
 DD> OS/2" whatever that meant.

A pity that IBM hve given up on it as a consumer product - the MS
conditions imposed on developers to get early access to information
essential for product development meant that very few developers could
produce OS/2 versions of their products. It's supported for the next
seven years, then it becomes yet another dead product.

A pity as technically it is in many ways far in advance of anything MS
have produced to date.

A pity as there is one less alternative to Windows and it's
never-ending cycle of costly bug fixes (MS calls them new
versions...).

George

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