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From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Appletalk with a ][+
Message-ID: <52762@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 11 May 91 17:25:39 GMT
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In article <1991May11.105154.8607@nntp-server.caltech.edu> toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
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>Hmm. Is there any way to convince one of those suckers to work in a GS, to
>offload the packet overhead from the main CPU?
>
Yes, but it's not a useful marriage.  It will work, but only does anything if
you boot directly into ProDOS 8.  If you try to use AppleTalk from GS/OS you're
lucky if the card only gets confused or doesn't do anything.

The card only contains the firmware to handle the protocols as described in the
AppleShare Programmer's Guide; it does not work with the IIgs protocols loaded
at boot time from the *:System:Drivers directory.  It won't work with ProDOS 16
or GS/OS, nor any of the AppleTalk-specific parts of the IIgs System Software.

If you just want to boot P8 over a server, though, and never touch any IIgs
specific features, it might work, unless the AppleTalk-using application
identifies the machine as a IIgs and tries to call the IIgs protocol vector.
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