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From: liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: which Unix versions have native Appletalk stacks?
Message-ID: <2454@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk>
Date: 2 Jul 90 18:59:33 GMT
References: <1990Jun29.214819.28865@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK.
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In <1990Jun29.214819.28865@maytag.waterloo.edu> gamiddle@maytag.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton) writes:

>We would like to run a native, in-kernel Appletalk stack on a Unix box.  Are
>there any vendors who sell one?

Rumour has it that SunOS includes some AppleTalk support, and
the Sequent operating system definitely has some, though both
of these might be hooks on which to hang extra software (e.g.
Tops, Kinetics things like K-Spool, and so on).

You could always get A/UX - A/UX 2.0 has EtherTalk and
LocalTalk support in kernel as standard, and A/UX 1.1 has this
as an extra which you can buy from Apple.

Apple's A/UX implementation of this stuff was done in C and is
intended to be portable: you can licence the source code from
them at sensible rates and it is based on Streams drivers.
Vendors wishing to include it in their products get a discount
on the licence fee if they make it a standard part of the
product (that's what they said at the WWDC in San Jose this year).
This is all AppleTalk phase 2, so you get ISO conformant
Ethernet packets into the bargain.
-- 

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