13 Sep
2007
13 Sep
'07
9:36 p.m.
On Thursday 13 September 2007 03:57, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 13 Sep 2007 at 0:41, Geoff Reed wrote:
I'm not familiar with such stuff.
Me, I'd accept a somewhat broader definition, I guess. "Sharing resource"
covers a bunch of it, and even file transfer is pretty handy stuff when you
want to move information around...
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
IIRC the trs-80 model III and IV could network
(saw it in use in a
classroom) via cassette port (hazy memory here) the network III device
IIRc, where it hooked to a main computer that had a HD, and let you load
and save programs on diskless III'S and IV's
I'm getting a little confused about the definition of "networking".
What I've been interpreting as is making another computer's files and
or drives or other resources appear (seamlessly) as part of the
current host's resources.
Just using a link to me doesn't imply "networking"--it's file
transfer, perhaps, but not networking.
And I'd also disqualify device-sharing, such as a MAC (multiple
access controller) between an I/O device and two computers. Those go
WAY back...