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To: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
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Subject: Re: laptop installations 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 19 Jun 1996 01:01:08 +1000."
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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 08:12:25 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Laptops appear to be a significant installation nightmare .. unless you have
> a CDROM or a full set of floppies you end up using the serial port (and
> many, many hours).

Or a parallel cable and not so many hours (and at 115.5Kb, it's not
THAT many hours for serial).

> Maybe I've missed something but it seems that, by default, even though I have
> this ethernet card plugged in the side of the machine, I have no way of
> capitalising on the bandwidth of the T3 its default gateway's plugged into.

I'm not sure what you mean by this.  If you get a 10Mbit ethernet card
working, it will give you 10Mbits.  This doesn't change just because
you're on a laptop. :-)

						Jordan