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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: IIGS and AppleTalk
Message-ID: <52971@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 16 May 91 21:22:12 GMT
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In article <26228.netnews.info.apple@pro-novapple> daveharv@pro-novapple.cts.com (Dave Harvey-SysAdmin) writes:
>[...] (answering "What can you do with AppleTalk and just GSs?")
>You can hook up two or more IIGS's together to share one or more printers but
>nothing else.  The GS's can't communicate with each other if that's what you
>wanted to do.  And of course, the printers must have Appletalk installed.

GSs *can* talk to each other, but there isn't much software around taking
advantage of it.  The only one I can think of offhand was a preliminary
version of a "Chat" CDA that let any number of GSs talk to each other over
AppleTalk.
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