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From: minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT AppleTalk
Message-ID: <1990Oct31.210347.151@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 31 Oct 90 21:03:47 GMT
References: <1990Oct31.114439.133@gacvx2.gac.edu>
Organization: Oklahoma State University
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saunders@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Kevin Saunders) writes:
| So somebody out there needs to develop a NeXTBus AppleTalk board!
 
From article <1990Oct31.114439.133@gacvx2.gac.edu>, by dan@gacvx2.gac.edu:
| This NeXTbus board would need not be more than an "Internal" Shiva FastPath on
| a board.  It would be tough to justify spending $1600 (FastPath at edu pricing
| levels) for a board that would hook a single NeXT to an AppleTalk.

  Why not be more creative and do a little box that buffer LocalTalk (ie
240Kbps line) and then blast that over as fast as possible when the NeXT
was the target of the packet (broadcast included)? Perhaps this could connect
up through the DSP port? 
  How fast can the NeXT talk to the serial chip if external clocking is used?
On a mac, this can get up to around 900Kbps. At any rate, I imagine the expense
of a building a NeXTBus anything would far outweight the cost of everything
else. Ick.
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