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From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What kind of Mac for AS server?
Message-ID: <345@taniwha.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 89 22:40:28 GMT
References: <9684@bmc.uu.se> <1529@ccnysci.UUCP>
Reply-To: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Organization: Taniwha Systems Design, Oakland
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In article <1529@ccnysci.UUCP> alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) writes:
>
>If you are running it without a video card (not a bad idea at all), you could
>wait a few weeks/months for the Moc OS drivers to be released for the CommCard,
>and then you could put in the Commcard in the third slot. That would let you
>run bridging software (Liason) on the same server so it could serve a
>LocalTalk net as well, and bridge the two nets. (Use of the CommCard cuts the
>CPU overhead of bridging, and LocalTalk in general, to an absolute minimum).
>Or you could put in a TokenTalk card, also due in a little while. Why, the
>possibilities are endless! Do I hear someone asking about ArcTalk? :-)

Actually the CommCard's MacOS LocalTalk drivers (for use under the LAP manager)
were released at the same time as the A/UX software (a year ago). It's the 
MacOS serial drivers that have not been released yet ..... For LocalTalk
the CommCard gives <= 1 interrupt/received/sent packet, can buffer 50 packets
(roughly 25 send/25 rcv) and can be sending/reciving one request while the
server is doing the disk IO for another

Anyway enough commercials

		Paul


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Paul Campbell, Taniwha Systems Design, Oakland CA ..!mtxinu!taniwha!paul