[Coco] Run a CoCo while sitting on the toilet! :)

Jeff Teunissen deek at d2dc.net
Tue Feb 20 16:54:59 EST 2007


Roger Taylor wrote:

[snip]

> So I'm sitting on my sofa right now with Mocha, a fairly accurate 
> CoCo for all practical purposes, beamed to me from the main PC using 
> 802.11g, ofcourse with no wires or dongles coming out of the 
> laptop.  This was a not-so-instant portable CoCo experiment, but it 
> works.  Can we say headaches?
> 
> The trick is the 'adhoc' networking technique that's already in Vista 

[snip]

Ad-hoc networking works in just about every OS that has 802.11a/b/g wireless.
There's nothing special about Vista other than the ridiculous prices and
equally-ridiculous content "protection".

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