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From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: LocalTalk Phase II (don't laugh!) & System 7.0
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Date: 9 May 91 05:16:53 GMT
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In article <42125@cup.portal.com>, MacUserLabs@cup.portal.com (Stephan - Somogyi) writes:
>
> Phase II AppleTalk also allows the use of the newer NBP calls, making
> life easier for the programmer. The recent ADSP example in develop
> requires AppleTalk 53 or later for this reason. There may be other new
> programmatic features of 53 and later - this is the only one that I
> can remember.

There's also the transition queue that let's your programs hear about
it when the MPP driver is opened or closed. (Why oh why did they put
a C interface on this thing!  What a pain from Pascal, at least C routines
can be declared as using a Pascal calling sequence)

Let's see, also PGetAppleTalkInfo, sort of a SystemInfo for AppleTalk.

-- michael

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