On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Alexandre Souza
<alexandre-listas at e-secure.com.br> wrote:
it has a
serial port on it. Jim's tcpser program is the perfect thing for
stuff like this. tcpser is available for both Win32 and Linux systems and
may work on others.
Hmmm...I just remembered a very ancient (and funny) fact.
Some decades ago, I had two 486' and a 386 networked with lantastic and
personal netware (yes...I was something you can call "rich" as a 16-year-old
boy working repairing computers) and had my own BBS. These were the times,
where it was hard as hell to put more than two modems in the same computer
I had a msx with serial port...hmmm...
It was easy :) Opened a DOORWAY session inside deskview and connected the
MSX to the serial port.
I've seen it work the other way around. In the mid-to-late-80's back
in Madison, WI there was an 8 line chat system called "Warlord Chat".
Warlord had built it and written the software himself. The central
system was an IBM PC (ISTR it was a 5150 rather than an XT). It was
"networked" to four Atari 400s. I assume there was a serial
connection from the PC to each Atari. Each of the Ataris ran two
modems.
The competing system in town was called "the Bee Line" which had a
similar capacity, but I think it was built out of Apple II systems.
Of course all the cool people used Warlord Chat.