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From: jqj@duff.uoregon.edu (JQ Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: more dialup appletalk
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.002443.1775@ns.uoregon.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 91 00:24:43 GMT
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Reply-To: jqj@duff.uoregon.edu (JQ Johnson)
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I notice in the current MacWeek the rumor that Apple plans to offer remote
Appletalk connections by modem, much the way one can now connect from a
Mac at home to an Appletalk network using a Shiva software and a Shiva
Netbridge or LiaisonNet and Liaison on a Mac.  Does anyone know anything
more about Apple's plans? In particular, will it be possible for a Mac
user to simultaneously access the remote Appletalk network and local
Appletalk devices like a laserwriter?  What hardware will be required on
the network end? Will the software support compression modems, or does it
require full duplex minimal-delay (e.g. v.32)?

Presumably the Apple software will not allow the Mac at home to function as a fullfledged half-router.  Or will it?  Suppose the Mac at home also
has the Apple Internet Router software; will this allow dialup appletalk
connections between two *networks*?

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JQ Johnson
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