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From: dlm@druwy.ATT.COM (Dan Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: INFO-ATARI16 Digest V89 #727
Message-ID: <4474@druwy.ATT.COM>
Date: 4 Dec 89 16:35:35 GMT
References: <8912010818.AA04783@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO
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in article <8912010818.AA04783@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, AKISUJAR@NUSVM.BITNET
("S.Sujarittanonta") says:
> REF: Spectre and AppleTalk
> I do not know what make it so difficult for Dave to make his Spectre
> works with AppleTalk. I am not a 'Software man' [...]

	There is a real simple reason that the ST Mac emulators
(Spectre, Magic Sac, and Aladin) don't support Appletalk, lack of
proper hardware.  Appletalk runs at 230,000 baud, the ST does not have
a synchronous serial port that runs that fast.  Without hardware
support what is the point in working on the software support?

	On several occasions Dave Small has said he will support
Appletalk when there is hardware available to connect it.  In the last
4 years at least 6 companies have either privately or publicly
announced they were going to build Appletalk hardware, none of them
have ever released any hardware.  Most of them decided to drop the
project since they didn't expect it to make enough money to pay back
the R&D expenses.  A couple of them may still be working on it.


			Dan Moore
			AT&T Bell Labs
			Denver
			dlm@druwy.ATT.COM