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Re: Ethertalk / Localtalk routing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ATPlack@scj.com)
Wed Mar 20 13:31:11 1996
From: ATPlack@scj.com
Date: 20 Mar 96 11:55:24 -0600
To: ecloud@goodnet.com
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Tops networks required a special connection in the Apple to support it.
This is not a direct connect.
As for future support of this, I do not know. I have some 2 MB ArcNet boards
in my closet but I sure would not want to run a network over them with 10 MB
Ethernet cards at ?29 apiece.
Both these networks required a lot more physical setup than Ethernet does
today.
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From: ecloud@goodnet.com
To: Plack, Anthony, T.
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: Ethertalk / Localtalk routing
Date: Wednesday, March 20, 1996 10:50AM
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> >for testing only, but it was just on the ethernet backbone. I doubt there
> >is a PC localtalk card, and if there is I doubt even more if Linux
> >supports it.. your #2 up there is really the only "real" solution.
>
> Yes, there is an Appletalk board for the PC. Novell has been using
several
> for Apple access to their NOS and I believe that someone should look into
> it. Maybe from the 68k development group.
I have an old TOPS card, which is an ISA card that was used in a TOPS
network
that included macs. I don't know if the macs had to have a special card too
or if this card does localtalk directly. I've never found a use for it; it
came in a PC I got at the surplus auction at ASU. It'd be cool if Linux
supported such networks, if they still exist.
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