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From: hummel@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: app*etalk
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Date: 6 Aug 88 17:00:00 GMT
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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.

The speed at which you could drive the Amiga's RS232 port through the
serial.device would make this a horribly slow solution, if workable at
all.  Perhaps it would be possible to build a parallel<->RS422 converter
so as to get acceptable speeds (I don't have Hardware RKM handy, but you
might be able to draw the power you need directly off the parallel port.
Maybe not, though).

Mark (Fausett@radc-tops20.arpa) writes:
> Has anyone tried an PC Appletalk board in a Amiga 2000?

More importantly, is there any software available to ACCESS a PC Appletalk
board in an Amiga 2000?

				< Lionel

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