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From: GWO110%URIACC.BITNET@brownvm.brown.edu (F. Michael Theilig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Thought's about AppleTalk.
Message-ID: <23442@snow-white.udel.EDU>
Date: 2 Jul 90 23:40:53 GMT
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On 2 Jul 90 14:02:19 GMT you said:
>HI,
>
>Appletalk is the applemacintosh network, standard in every mac.
>It is not that fast: 230 KB/s technically, which results in a transfer rate
>of about 60 KB on a macII, 40 on a MAC SE or MAC plus. 80 or higher on a
>MAC SE/30. Offcourse if more people use the net is slows down considerably:
>Especially using laserwriters! (Can take up to 5 mins to print page, with
>only 5 to 10 macs hooked up)

     I have *NEVER* seen a Mac take that long to print one page.  And
 if anyone has a messed up system, it's us.  We have 8 Mac SEs hooked
 to an Apple lazer printer and it never takes longer than 1 minuete to
 print.

>CMI made a card for the AMIGA, but I don't think it still exists.
>I think the easiest way to go is with an APPLETALK TO RS232 converter.
>They exist(I am almost sure), since APPLETALK can be put on a phoneline.
>Now all you need is to write software on the amiga that reads the RS232
>channel, the header's of the data packets, trashes what it doesn't want,
>and captures what it does. And sending packet's offcourse.
>
     Let me get this right: I can connect my machine to a MAC network and
 print my document on their printer?  I doubt I could use their fileserver,
 but that's obvious.  Anyone know if this works with AMax?

>If anyone knows of anyway(not to expensive) to hook up my amiga to Appletalk,
>(I can't program a appletalk device driver) let me know,
>I am really interested since we have a campus wide network with
>appletalk jacks in every dormroom( supposedly in September).
>
     Who makes it, what is it's functionality, and how much does it cost?

>Thanks, Nils Gokemeijer (NJ_GOKEMEIJE@FANDM.bitnet)

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