Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!shoemake From: shoemake@Apple.COM (Mike Shoemaker) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: AppleTalk/PC limitations and alternatives (longish) Message-ID: <53542@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 31 May 91 20:04:23 GMT References: Distribution: comp.protocols.appletalk Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 27 kenw@skyler.arc.ab.ca (Ken Wallewein) writes: > I've been having "interesting times" trying to get AppleTalk/PC to work >with an 8 MHz/33MHz IPC 386. > After determining that the board itself was bad, installing a good one, I >found that I had to run in it interrrupt mode, or the PC would immediately >wedge if run at 33 MHz. Even in interrupt mode, it must be switched back >to 8 MHz while using AppleTalk/PC, or the same thing happens. > This is the Apple version of AppleTalk/PC, not Farallon's; I think the >software is version 2.1. In any case, Farallon says I'm outa luck past 25 >MHz, and that my only option is to get an Ethernet board instead. If it's Apple's software, the last version we released before turning the product over to Farallon was 2.0.1 It is not true that the only option is Ethernet. AppleShare PC 2.0.x supports the DayStar Digital LocalTalk cards -- both for the PC-AT bus and Microchannel. But, yes our (Apple's) LocalTalk card does have extreme problems in machines faster than 25 MHz due to a rather unusual hardware design. Mike Shoemaker Apple Computer, Inc.