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From: jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeremy G. Mereness)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Ethertalk vs. Localtalk
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Date: 5 May 89 14:24:36 GMT
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Organization: Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Rick, I think this idea would be wonderful.

Of Course, I would like to see a SCSI port built into the GS, a card
like you suggest would be really nice. 

Anywhere there happen to be Ethernet/Localtalk networks, the Apple
//GS would be extremely useful. Further, the more stuff that is
archived on FTP sites, the more the need to directly access the stuff
in favor of logging in to a workstation or a mainframe and having to
download by a conventional modem. 

I am trying to port NTSA Telnet over to the GS. This is a project that
I will begin in earnest over the summer, and I have the sources here
at CMU to look at. However, we both know what kind of performance
increase would be experienced if the GS could access Ethertalk
directly. 

and once you login to a remote host with telnet instead of a dialup,
there is no going back. 19200 baud makes 2400 seem intolerable. 


jerry
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