Subj : ping
To   : Leonard Erickson
From : Roy J. Tellason
Date : Sat Feb 21 2004 08:06 pm

Leonard Erickson wrote in a message to John Donohue:

 JD> The CP/M-80 box no se habla 'network'

 LE> Depends on what *kind* of box. There are ways to get even that
 LE> networked. SLIP to a Linux box at worst.

I might be interested in pursuing that here,  since I have a whole *bunch* of 
cp/m machines still...

 JD> the PS2 OS/2 2.1 box only has a token ring card

 LE> You can still find microchannel ethernet cards if you look.

Got one here,  new in the box.  And a microchannel machine,  too,  though that 
has networking in it already.

 JD> the 486-133 DOS box isn't worth hooking to a network

 LE> I've got a 486DX2-66 hooked up. It does my Fidonet & uucp. And it
 LE> used to be a 486-33!

 LE> I've had XT clones on my LAN. They load games off my server
 LE> (Netware) a lot faster than off the HD!

Interesting!  What platform?  OS?

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