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From: phssra@emory.uucp (Scott R. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: EtherTalk vs. LocalTalk on Mac II
Message-ID: <2584@emory.uucp>
Date: 6 Feb 88 22:37:18 GMT
References: <9414@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <11540122@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>
Reply-To: phssra@emory.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson)
Organization: Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta
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In article <11540122@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David Williams) writes:
>>Bill Leue writes:
>Hmmmm, I think what she means is that you can only have Ethertalk or LocalTalk
>active at any one time. The serial ports still function while ET is active, 
>but they can not run Localtalk at the same time as ET is running.

This is an unfortunate limitation!  What if I want to print graphics or text
from my UNIX login screen to my LocalTalked LaserWriter?  Or receive mail over
LocalTalk while logged in to UNIX?  Or any number of other concurrent uses one
can imagine!

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