Subj : ping
To   : Leonard Erickson
From : Roy J. Tellason
Date : Tue Mar 02 2004 04:06 am

Leonard Erickson wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 -=> 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... 

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

Well,  I have neither Apple II nor TRS-80 here,  never did get into either of 
them all that much.  I do have several Kaypros,  an Osborne Executive,  and a 
couple of others (Cromemco rackmounted S100 box, Bigboard II, etc.).

 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. 

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

Not PS/2,  it's an NCR tower.  Very non-standard architecture in there,  I 
can't even use standard RAM in it.

 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?

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

And what are you doing under dos to network things?  About the best I've been 
able to do on this box here is a packet driver and an ftp client.

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