Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!hao!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!aw0g+ From: aw0g+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Aaron Wohl) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: ATPL is really atpl Message-ID: Date: 21 Mar 88 12:19:31 GMT References: <7741@apple.Apple.Com> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 13 The atpl glue involves doing memory manger calls for each packet sent/recieved, this tends to be slow. Also the atpl glue is designed to send events after each async call compleats. The event manager isn't fast enough to really do this well. When a program gets a network event there is no way for it to handle network events from desk accessories (or other switcher/multifinder partitions). I was confused by the atpl glue for a while. I just assumed the assembly language calls defined in Inside mac V2 where logicaly the same as the pascal calls. They are compleatly different and don't have the problems mentioned above. The new prefered calls bring out the assembly language interface so that it is more usable from pascal. Aaron Wohl