Levi Pearson wrote:
I assume you meant 'thanks in advance' by TIA, but it reminded me of when I first hooked a computer to a network via TCP/IP. It was '94 or so in the BYU dorms, with the old-school Dataphones with a 19.2kbps serial connection to a selection of servers. One of the available servers was the main CS server, on which we'd run a program called 'tia', an acronym of 'the internet adapter'. It set up a SLIP connection with your PC, which basically gave you a NATed link to the internet with which you could run Mosaic and see the little GIFs that went with the text on the World Wide Web.
Awesome! I lived in the BYU dorms in '97, and each computer was DHCP-assigned a publicly routable IP address with massive bandwidth. Good times!
So, although it wouldn't be Ethernet, you could just use a serial port to get a TCP/IP connection between two PCs. Ethernet is hardly anything like Ethernet these days anyway. ;)
That is true, and would be fun (for me anyway -- probably boring for him). Things get pretty hairy when you add a third computer, eh? :)
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