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From: rmh@apple.UUCP (Rick Holzgrafe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: EtherTalk vs. LocalTalk on Mac II
Message-ID: <7366@apple.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 88 21:30:20 GMT
References: <9414@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <11540122@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> <5193@well.UUCP> <5195@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: rmh@apple.UUCP (Rick Holzgrafe)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, USA
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In article <5195@well.UUCP> mz@well.UUCP (Michael Zentner) writes:
>
>From another article I surmised that Localtalk is the Appletalk that
>allows direct connection of the Laserwriter to a Mac without the network.
>

Nope.  "LocalTalk" is the dialect of AppleTalk that is carried over those
familiar little white cables that plug into the back of your Mac. "EtherTalk"
is the dialect that is carried over EtherNet. They differ only in the
lower-level members of the protocol stack.

So "LocalTalk" is nothing strange - just a new name for the same old
AppleTalk-and-little-white-cables that all of you networkers have been
using for years.

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