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Amiga runs just fine as a dumb terminal in just about any combination of serial (PPP / Slip / straight serial). PCMCIA cards enable it to run regular SSH and NF

Amiga runs just fine as a dumb terminal in just about any combination of serial (PPP / Slip / straight serial). PCMCIA cards enable it to run regular SSH and NFS to a host (best used in combination with Solaris or illumos systems). Vampire accelerators enable TCP / IP networking on a regular A500.

snvzz 7y ago
>Vampire accelerators enable TCP / IP networking on a regular A500. A regular A500 can do TCP/IP just fine without a vampire. By using AmiTCP or roadshow TCP/IP stack and PPP, SLIP, PLIP (e.g. with a plipbox) or a NIC based on the left expansion header. A600 and A1200 can simply use a PCMCIA card. The typical choice is ne2000-compatible cards using the cnet.device driver.
- Annatar 7y ago
  A500 could always do Slip and PPP, but it's awfully slow over serial and parallel ports. Even plipbox manages only about 53 KB/s. I also use cnet.device in my A1200.
  - snvzz 7y ago
    >I also use cnet.device in my A1200. As an aside, the ne2000 cards do also work on the Amiga ports of Netbsd and Linux.
    - Annatar 7y ago
      I know, I run NetBSD on my A1200 as well. I have it set up as a dual boot.
      - snvzz 7y ago
        It's good to know I'm not totally alone :)