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From: jnmoyne@lbl.gov (Jean-Noel MOYNE)
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Subject: Re: Thought's about AppleTalk.
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Date: 3 Jul 90 22:57:19 GMT
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One way to connect Appletalk and Amiga would be to use Ethernet between 
the two ones !!! (-: Don't laugh too much, despite the fact that it will 
be too expensive (and using Ethernet just for that ...) it will certainly 
work, since you got Ethernet cards for the Amiga, and Kinetics box for the 
Appletalk.

   Anyway, there are certainly a few router programs on the mac that will 
allow you to make the physical (and a part of the logical) link between 
the two machines. But you certainly will have to write a specfic software 
on the Amiga part. After all, Appletalk Transaction Protocol and DDP are 
not very complicated protocols.

     What slows the printing of a page is rather the speed of the printer 
than the speed of the Net. Appletalk isn't that slow, sure in front of 
Ethernet it's nothing, but remember you can only have 32 devices on the 
same Appletalk net, and by using it here (and here it is a huge net !! I 
can tell you !!  (about 800 macs total) ) it is still realy reasonable.

     The bigest problem to connect both world is still the physical link, 
but once you've done it, it's not too hard to make your Amiga look like a 
Mac (just takes time (-:) and it'll be possible to use Appleshare, 
printers, and public folders from an Amiga. 

     But I don't think anyone had done it yet, if there is a market maybe 
someone could do it.

       JNM