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From: norman@d.cs.okstate.edu (Norman Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Loss of Mac's 20%... the Mac's
Message-ID: <1990Jul10.031045.24615@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 10 Jul 90 03:10:45 GMT
References: <70400023@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Oklahoma State University
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From article <70400023@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, by gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu:
> 
>> Education users?  Funny, in high school we had a Corvus disk server that
>> Apple ][s ran off of.  At UMCP, we have LAN's of all sorts.  (and at home,
>> I've got a two-computer Appletalk LAN).  Why would LANs not be useful
>> for education users?
> 
> I guess it boils down to whether you consider Appletalk to be a LAN.
> I don't, and my statements about LAN support weren't meant to apply to
> 240kbaud appletalk.

No No No. AppleTalk is a collection of protocols that conform to the OSI
network layers model. It runs on LocalTalk cabling (the slow stuff),
EtherTalk cabling (ethernet), and TokenTalk (Token Ring--I believe this
is a recent addition). As usual, the speed of your network is directly 
related to the amount of money you sink into the networking hardware. 
For local peripheral sharing, LocalTalk is adequate; For a diskless work-
station you'll need something faster. [Aside: AppleTalk will also coexist
with other network protocols on the same cabling.]
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