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From: wnn@DSUNX1.DSRD.ORNL.GOV (W. N. Naegeli)
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Subject: Appletalk Books
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Date: 22 Feb 89 13:12:59 GMT
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Jon McCown writes:
> I am looking for a book on appletalk that is not of the "you too can do
> desktop publishing with both macs and PCs" genre.
Kinetics has recently started distributing a "Network Primer" by Lisa M.
Schmidt and June M. Watanabe. Though it has a few errors and oddities and
emphasizes Kinetics solutions it gives a fairly good overview.  It is part
of the FastPath 4 manual, but they also distribute it as a paperback brochure.
On its back it says $19.95  193/001800, but I have received one for free.
Call them up (415) 947-0988 and tell them you are interested in their
various hardware and software products. They also have a 'Counterpart"
brochure with terse information about many third-party products compatible
with Kinetics gateways and boards.
Macazine has published several extensive articles on networking over the last
18 months or so.
Finally, there are "Inside AppleTalk," "AppleTalk Manager Update," "Apple
Talk Data Stream Protocol Preliminary Note," "AppleTalk Filing Protocol,"
"EtherTalk Preliminary Notes" and several "Technical Notes" providing the
most complete and reliable but hard to use source of information.  All are
available from APDA, the Apple Programmer's and Developer's Association.

There is also a commercial book by Stephen L. Michel, "IBM PC and Macintosh
Networking," 1988 Hayden Macintosh Library Books, Hayden Books, Indianapolis, $21.95
It doesn't cover EtherTalk, TCP/IP or anything involving Ethernet, but it
explains well how PC's and Macs can share information with TOPS or AppleShare.

Wolfgang N. Naegeli
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
wnn@dsunx1.dsrd.ornl.gov (128.219.96.46)
(615) 574-6143