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From: mst@mx.csun.edu (Michael Temkin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: LocalTalk v. AppleTalk
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Date: 19 Nov 90 05:46:37 GMT
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In article <3449@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) writes:
>Just what is the distinction between LocalTalk and AppleTalk, anyway?
>
>This is something that has puzzled me for some time.  I notice that
>Inside AppleTalk doesn't define *either* term in its glossary...
>-- 
>Paul DuBois
>dubois@primate.wisc.edu
>
>       "If you're not a docter, you're just pants" -- Ian D., age 3 1/2

AppleTalk is the protocol.  LocalTalk is the physical cabling, this
includes phonenet.

Mike.
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Mike Temkin
mst@csun.edu
Cal. State U. Northridge, School of Engineering and Computer Science
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