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- From: hyc@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov (Howard Chu)
- Subject: Re: Falcon questions
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 23:10:16 GMT
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- In article <TKLD.92Dec14153118@burns.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> tkld@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Kevin Davidson) writes:
- >Does (will) MultiTos (I won't buy a Falcon till it comes with MultiTos)
- >support the AppleTalk LAN connector ? Or would I need a 3rd party
- >APPLESHARE.XFS ?
- >
- >How about ISO9660.XFS for CD-roms?
- >I've heard rumours that the Falcon will be CD-I compatible; compatible
- >enough for me to pick up CD-I stuff from a department store and run it
- >at home ? Or just enough to read the disks ?
- >Proper support for Minix-type filesystems (ie backups and fileselector)?
-
- Dunno much about CD-I, but there will definitely be an ISO9660 filesystem
- driver included with MultiTOS. Also don't know about Appleshare support;
- it could reasonably be done as a Mint filesystem driver as well. Some
- company in Germany is already working on the Appletalk networking support.
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- -- Howard Chu @ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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