Atari ST

On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 17:26:14 -0400 "Jeffrey H. Ingber" <jingber(a)ix.netcom.com> wrote: There are TCP/IP drivers for the Microsoft Client for DOS. Samba 'just works' with it. I used to run it years ago with a Linux box with the 1.2 kernel. You can set up the Microsoft Client to boot up from just a single diskette if you trim down the config to the bare minimum. Then you can put up a system with just a floppy disk, no hard drive, with the Samba share mounting as C:. I found through experimentation that you can then install Windows 3.1 on that 'C' drive from the floppy disks. Windows 3, installed this way, doesn't even know there is a network involved. So you can then have a whole system booting from a floppy that has a network mounted Windows 3 on it. This is, of course, of limited value today, but it's interesting to fool with, or it was back when all some of us could afford was a single 386 box to run Windows, so we had to use 286 and earlier boxes to 'fool around' with networking at home. And to be honest, I wish I'd been scarfing up Dec and old Sun stuff back then and not diddling around with PC junk and those 3Com ethernet cards I got at a surplus store (ancient 3c501s) for $2.50 a pound.