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- From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Networking? WHY?!?
- Message-ID: <37087@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 01:30:56 GMT
- References: <jm39s70.4zpd@sycom.mi.org>
- Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- In article <jm39s70.4zpd@sycom.mi.org> jm39s70@sycom.mi.org (Jim Mallory) writes:
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- >Not to be nitpicking but Appletalk is the name of the Protocol stock,
- >LocalTalk is the name of the hardware port built into the Mac.
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- While you're picking nits, that's the party line today. Originally Apple's
- docs called the whole schemeggie "AppleTalk". When they started thinking
- about splitting the HW/SW aspects of the thing, they started adding more
- fancy names.
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- >There are versions of Appletalk that run on Ethernet and Token-Ring
- >(Ethertalk and Tokentalk respectivly but it is all Appletalk.)
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- And "CrossTalk" is what you get when you plug the wrong ones together.
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