Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!jesup
From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: app*etalk
Message-ID: <4432@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 6 Aug 88 21:18:59 GMT
References: <3620@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <3620@louie.udel.EDU> FAUSETT@radc-tops20.arpa writes:
>Stephen J. King writes:
>
>> App*eTalk on an Amiga? We have a contractor here (Harold of NTT systems)
>> who says that it would be fairly easy to run this protocol on  the Amiga,
>> given an RS232 to current loop convertor, which I could whip together in
>> (almost) no time flat. He doesn't know if he wants to put this thing out PD
>> or as a marketable product, so we are looking for feedback from the net.

>Cavaets:
>	1.  Can the Amiga serial port run at 270K baud (that's roughly the 
>	speed of the LocalTalk RS422 links).

	Certainly not without disabling all multitasking.

>	2.  To make it useful, you need to also implement some of the higher
>	level protocols, like Appleshare etc.

	There is hope, however.  MicroBotics is doing a board called 5Power,
which will have (among other things) 2 or 4 serial ports on it, using the
same chip as Apple uses in the Mac, and each serial port will have it's own
dma channel to memory.  It should be easy to do for that board.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup