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Not explicitly mentioned, and totally wild from today's point of view: AmigaOS does not have a TCP/IP stack. The "Raodshow" briefly mentioned in the video is a

by brazzy 3y ago

Not explicitly mentioned, and totally wild from today's point of view: AmigaOS does not have a TCP/IP stack. The "Raodshow" briefly mentioned in the video is a commercial implementation of a TCP/IP stack which you have to pay for. I wrote my first website on an Amiga. Didn't have internet, but a browser. So I carried my lovingly hand-crafted HTML on diskette to university to store it in my public_html folder. I'm guessing they must have been running some 1.0 version of Apache with mod_userdir.

icedchai 3y ago
My first access to the Internet was through an Amiga, over a 9600 baud SLIP connection. I installed AmiTCP and a Mosaic port: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMosaic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMosaic
- ptek 3y ago
  What were your Amiga and Modem specs for that connection? USR? +++ATH
  - icedchai 3y ago
    It was an A3000 and some sort of early 90's 9600 baud modem. The 2400 -> 9600 upgrade felt huge!
bux93 3y ago
Likely CERN or NCSA httpd, as apache came out in 1995. Before apache came out (1995), it wasn't wild for an OS not to have a native TCP/IP stack. That's the year of the eponymous Windows 95 which had its own TCP/IP stack. Windows for workgroups 3.11 only got a TCP/IP stack from Redmond in 1994, so until that time you needed to install a third party winsock, like Trumpet winsock or the one that came with the Quarterdesk browser.
- icedchai 3y ago
  I remember doing ISP tech support, talking people through downloading Trumpet Winsock with a regular terminal program... It could take a long time to get someone online.
- brazzy 3y ago
  My anecdote is from 1996-1998 - I was riding out the end of the Amiga era pretty far.
ptek 3y ago
The first TCP/IP Amiga stack was released in the late 80s called AmigaTCP (AmigaNOS) based on KA9Q TCP. All it had was SLIP, FTP and Telnet. I've never managed to get it going on my Amiga 500. On my Amiga 1200 I used Miami as it was easier to set up, but towards the end I managed to understand and get AmiTCP going which was better as it had a smaller RAM foot print. Having to pay for PPP drivers on the Amiga when you were a teenager was a pain in the @$$. I mainly just used DCTelnet on my Amiga and IBrowse for Aminet.

by brazzy 3y ago

icedchai 3y ago

My first access to the Internet was through an Amiga, over a 9600 baud SLIP connection. I installed AmiTCP and a Mosaic port: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMosaic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMosaic

ptek 3y ago
What were your Amiga and Modem specs for that connection? USR? +++ATH
- icedchai 3y ago
  It was an A3000 and some sort of early 90's 9600 baud modem. The 2400 -> 9600 upgrade felt huge!

bux93 3y ago

Likely CERN or NCSA httpd, as apache came out in 1995. Before apache came out (1995), it wasn't wild for an OS not to have a native TCP/IP stack. That's the year of the eponymous Windows 95 which had its own TCP/IP stack. Windows for workgroups 3.11 only got a TCP/IP stack from Redmond in 1994, so until that time you needed to install a third party winsock, like Trumpet winsock or the one that came with the Quarterdesk browser.

icedchai 3y ago
I remember doing ISP tech support, talking people through downloading Trumpet Winsock with a regular terminal program... It could take a long time to get someone online.
brazzy 3y ago
My anecdote is from 1996-1998 - I was riding out the end of the Amiga era pretty far.

ptek 3y ago

The first TCP/IP Amiga stack was released in the late 80s called AmigaTCP (AmigaNOS) based on KA9Q TCP. All it had was SLIP, FTP and Telnet. I've never managed to get it going on my Amiga 500. On my Amiga 1200 I used Miami as it was easier to set up, but towards the end I managed to understand and get AmiTCP going which was better as it had a smaller RAM foot print. Having to pay for PPP drivers on the Amiga when you were a teenager was a pain in the @$$. I mainly just used DCTelnet on my Amiga and IBrowse for Aminet.