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From: graifer@net1.ucsd.edu (Dan Graifer)
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Subject: Re: APPLESHARE server sitting on ETHERNET
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Date: Wed, 23-Sep-87 14:56:22 EDT
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Since my last posting on this subject, I have obtained more info.

First, just out of interest:  3Com now supports appletalk on their PC network
servers in some fashion.
Novell says they will have something similer via appletalk by January

I talked again, this time to tech folks at TOPS.  Very helpful.  You can
network Macs and Unix machines over ethernet using TOPS and the Kinetics 
Ethernet controllers (both SCSI and the SE board).  You might call the 
technique "EtherTalk" as they are actually packaging up Appletalk messages
for transmission in Ethernet Packits.  This is what the TOPS software expects
to see on a unix server (by the way, a unix machine cannot be a client at 
this time on a TOPS network).  It is also what the Kinetics fastpath expects to
see translation to/from AppleTalk.  It is my understanding that the speed of
Appletalk is limited by the Appletalk driver chips, which TOPS/Ethertalk will
bypass.   

Hope this helps.

                              Dan Graifer
                              graifer@net1.UCSD.EDU
Disclaimer: Nobody ever listens to me anyways; Why should they start now?