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From: schaerer@unizh.UUCP (schaerer)
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Subject: Re: Networking 2 Macs cheaply:  How do I?
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Date: 21 Dec 89 16:48:33 GMT
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> > My roommate and I each have Mac II's.  They are 50 feet apart from each
> > other in the same apartment.  What are the various ways we can network
> > them together?  Our objectives are:
> > ...
> >       3) share my LaserWriter IISC (if possible).
> > ...
> ...
> You connect them using a bus topology like:
> 
>   Mac        Mac        LW
>    ^----------^----------^

The LaserWriter IISC connects through the SCSI port and can't be networked.

(Let me speculate: Not yet? A printer server software similar to LaserShare,
but driving a dumb printer? Apple is probably working on a PostScript clone,
and putting it into a Mac might be as sensible as putting it into the ROMs of
a printer.)

Daniel Schaerer, University of Zurich/Switzerland
schaerer@ifi.unizh.ch