Sun SPARCstation 2

From: Ryan K. Brooks <ryan_at_hack.net>
Date: Fri Feb 16 13:22:46 2001

Jeff Hellige wrote:

> > Amigas rock. A solid operating system with preemptive multitasking
> >and a GUI in 256K of RAM on a floppy-based system...Amazing!
>
> I've even been known to make my Amiga multi-user. I had 3
> serial ports installed on my A4000, and had my Atari-ST emulating a
> VT-100 terminal hooked up to one of them. I then redirected all
> console I/O from an AmigaDOS shell to the serial port. The person on
> the VT-100 could do whatever they wished as long as the it didn't
> involve graphics or something that opened up a new window. I even
> had a small IRC program that could be run like that if the A4000 was
> online.
>

Ah yes, I remember setting up a telnet server on my old Amigas like this
as well (as part of AS225). In fact, it was quite usable, especially if
you had that patch the would kill any requesters that popped up;
particularily those "Insert Volume" ones.

R
Received on Fri Feb 16 2001 - 13:22:46 GMT