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From: hpoppe@bierstadt.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: The Coming AppleTalk Crisis
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Date: 17 Feb 89 16:17:53 GMT
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In article <724@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> lloyd@aplcen (Lloyd W. Taylor) writes:
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>The AppleTalk protocols (as currently implemented) do not scale well to
>large ("Enterprise" or "Campus") networks.

[long discussion deleted]

According to the latest MacWeek (if I remember correctly) AppleTalk 2.0
(which is rumored to be out this summer) addresses some of these problems.
In particular, it deals with the 255 node issue.

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