Subj : Re: 386 OS/2 Woes...
To   : Vorlon
From : Abbub
Date : Wed Apr 26 2023 07:38:04

 > That's a limit on the amiga's, when a *new* network card for the big
 > box units are $200AUD. At least with my A1200, I'd already had the
 > pcmcia  card and just had to find it.. I was also given a WIFI one
 > that works well  to.

I think I broke down and bought a x-surf for the Amiga 2000...probably about
a decade ago. It was expensive (I want to say $150?) but it put an end to a
lot of other shenanigans I'd been failing at to get reasonable access to the
network. These days I think a lot of people just stick a raspberry pi in
their amiga and call it a day. lol

 > Was that back in the day or now? Netwoking via lan was just at the very
 > start and not many people had it.

Back in the day I moved the board from DesqView to OS/2 because I wanted
better multi-tasking. The BBS computer was my *only* computer. The system
that I'm on now I moved from DesqView to OS/2 because a) I wanted better
multitasking for multiple telnet nodes and b) I wanted to divorce it
completely from the pi that was sort of acting as a 'gateway' to the wider
network, which required a network stack so I could run binkd on the actual
bbs machine.

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