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From: billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Appletalk for the ST
Message-ID: <1465@agora.UUCP>
Date: 24 Apr 89 01:51:48 GMT
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From article <8904212229.AA22257@es56.escd.uucp:, by karl@es56.UUCP (Karl Rowley):
: 
: Now that the ST has a Postscript emulator, what about a box to connect
: it to Appletalk?  The Mega ST and laser printer make a decent postscript
: device, but they have to be fed through the parallel or serial port.
: This cannot really compete with other printers that can be connected 
: directly to Appletalk.

	We're talking about doing an Appletalk card as a plug in option
on our ST Processor Accelerator. The question I have is, how many people
out there are interested in this type of option, and how much would you
be willing to pay for it? Remember that there is a lot of software that
would need to be written to access it from the ST directly... We could
possibly do it with support only through one of the Mac emulators also.
IT's a bit tough to figure out how to actually fit it inside there... 
The accelerator board is going to be tough enough. We want to make them
to fit into as many versions of the machine as possible.

: Appletalk is a standard, and there are plenty of installations.  The 
: cabling for it is dirt cheap.  Appletalk connectivity for the ST would
: make the system a lot more attractive to business.

	Plus it is a natural for those people who're using the Mac
emulators... It's definately worth the look!

: 				Karl Rowley
: 				Evans and Sutherland Computer Division
: 				Mountain View, Ca., USA
: 				escd!karl@decwrl.dec.com
: 				...!decwrl!escd!karl
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