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From: phil@vaxphw.enet.dec.com (Phil Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: serial ports & ethertalk
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Date: 26 Oct 89 14:38:03 GMT
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In article <891@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>, joe@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Joe Chung) writes...
}Does anyone know why using Ethertalk (NuBus Ether card) should interfere
}with the MacII serial port B (printer port)? A serial driver that we wrote
}for MIDI cannot operate when Ethertalk is running (i.e. when Appletalk is
}enabled from the chooser and the Ethertalk network is selected from the
}control panel).
} 
Yes, I know why,  Apple did some hard coding of pointers to serial ports
way back when Appletalk was developed.  They are 'all over the place' in
the code and supposidly hard to find.

System 6.0.4 docs say this is (Finally) fixed, but I installed it and
STILL CAN'T USE MY PRINTER PORT!!!
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