Subj : ping
To   : Roy J. Tellason
From : Leonard Erickson
Date : Mon Mar 01 2004 02:39 am

 -=> Quoting Roy J. Tellason to Leonard Erickson <=-

 RJT> 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.

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

Heck there are CPM version *and* Network cards for things like the
Apple II and some TRS80 models.

 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.

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

You've got one of the few varieties of PS/2 ro *not* have microchannel
slots?!

 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!

 RJT> Interesting!  What platform?  OS?

XT clones running DOS (not much else you can run on them), server
running Netware on a P-90 system.


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