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From: dboyes@uoregon.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Appletalk card
Message-ID: <723@uoregon.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-Sep-87 02:40:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 30 02:40:59 1987
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Reply-To: dboyes@drizzle.UUCP (David Boyes)
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Organization: University of Oregon, Computer Science, Eugene OR
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You're absolutely right about the Appletalk card that the Fruit Stand
(Apple Co.) markets. The hardware itself is very nice -- nicely
constructed, gold edge card plating, etc., but the software quite
frankly sucks the proverbial Hairy Bird. It seems that the folks at
Apple with all their hoopla about standardized interfaces could have
bothered to read the nice documentation that IBM so carefully produced
about How To Write A Device Driver. Hmph.

The best fix I've seen to make a PC talk over Appletalk is TOPS. Their
software is 1/3 as large as Apple's and is far superior in both
reliability and operational simplicity. It costs serious $$$, though.


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David Boyes                   ARPA: 556%OREGON1.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU
Systems Division              BITNET: 556@OREGON1
University of Oregon Computing Center   UUCP: dboyes@uoregon.UUCP