🚀 go-pugleaf

On 6 Apr 1996 18:52:24 -0700, bcan...@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Macky
Stingray) wrote:

>  Ethernet can be kind of considered a rich man's toy, I guess, but
>damn, it's nice...

It only cost me $20 for my network combo card and it runs very well...
In fact 2 friends bought them at the sametime and it only cost a few
bucks to get the cables and terminators... I agree it's well worth it
if you have some computers near each other. Blows away null modem and
modem connections... Plus there is a cool program that you can use to
transfer files back and forth to all the computers; real simply to use
and only requires the standard generic network drivers, works in
DOS.... We transferred all our Doom wads and stuff in under a minute
and we're talking LOTS of bytes here... Faster than transferring with
floppies and makes modem transfers a joke. I think it was transferring
the data at roughly 300k a second or something; not bad, eh?




Paul - C...@TERMINUS.COM

"The inherent problem with this technology is that a single
 pair of eyes focuses on a single screen, and by some electronic
 extension, you are connected to somebody else--but it's in the
 abstract. The danger is that we become enamored with the 
 abstract and forget that life is really touchy-feely."
 -- William Shatner