On 13 Jun 2007 at 1:58, der Mouse wrote:
This actually reminds me of something I've been
contemplating doing:
"the same thing" for twisted-pair Ethernet. That is....
For two machines, with a crossed cable, machine A's 1/2 pair goes to
machine B's 3/6 pair, and conversely.
Before I picked up my first ISA ethernet cards and started stringing
coax, I used two products under MS-DOS 2.1 and 3.3, "The $25 Network"
and "The Invisible Network". The first was strictly RS-232; the
second could also use printer ports and dedicated cards. Not like
Laplink, but full "always-on" networking. Very primitive--whole
drive letter and printer sharing only, with no selective access. I
still have a 2P+2S ISA card that populated the machines that I
chained together. I don't remember too much about the setup, only
that it worked pretty well. I stll have the software and manuals.
The MS-DOS networking hooks were pretty handy, particularly when it
came to hosting foreign filesystems. CD-ROM access is accomplished
that way, IIRC.
Cheers,
Chuck