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- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
- Path: sparky!uunet!iWarp.intel.com|ssd.intel.com!nuntius
- From: Joe Niski <niski@ssd.intel.com>
- Subject: Re: AppleTalk drivers For Windows3.1
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.003501.21511@SSD.intel.com>
- Sender: usenet@SSD.intel.com
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- Organization: Intel Supercomputer Systems Division
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- References: <steveh.711368681@tasman>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 00:35:01 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- >In article <steveh.711368681@tasman>, on 17 Jul 1992 10:24:41 GMT,
- >steveh@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Steve Howell) writes:
- >
- >>
- >> I have just installed windows 3.1 on my 486.. and to my suprise
- >>there is no support for my already existing apple talk network of
- printers
- >>and servers.
- >>
- >Once upon a time, Win 2.x, an appletalk driver existed... it was written
- >by a third party hardware manufacturer of PC Appletalk boards and first
- >distributed with Aldus Pagemaker... that company has long ceased to
- >exist and no-one of the current Appletalk board manufacturers seem
- >interested at all in providing support for Windows 3.x. Microsoft
- >certainly doesn't care, all they say is contact your appletalk
- >board manufacturer. Apple stopped selling appletalk boards for the
- >PC so I doubt they would ven be sympathetic to the request...
- >instead the trend is to come out with printers that support serial
- >and parallel interfaces in addition to Appletalk.
- >
- >-- Denis
-
- Farallon Computing took over Apple's LocalTalk PC card over a year ago, i
- believe - they might be the folks to ask about updated AppleTalk drivers
- for that _other_ operating environment ;-0
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- Joe Niski niski@ssd.intel.com
- Macintosh (yes, Macintosh) Newtwork Admin.
- Intel Supercomputer Systems Division
- Beaverton, OR USA
-