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- From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
- Subject: Re: Using NS 3.0 appletalk support over phonenet
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.074916.5208@csus.edu>
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- Organization: San Francisco State University
- References: <1frhb5INNjsq@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <1992Dec8.043237.25320@slab.slip.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 07:49:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec8.043237.25320@slab.slip.uiuc.edu>
- derek@slab.slip.uiuc.edu (Derek Taubert) writes:
- >> At home my roommate and I have a NeXT and an apple Mac IIsi. We have a
- >> bunch of phonenet connectors, I don't suppose that anyone has written a
- >> driver that will allow me to use the phonenet connector on the next to
- >> drive the next as an appleshare client or server using the capabilties
- >> of NS 3.0?
-
- You'd really be a lot happier with one of those nice Asante'
- cards that plugs into the IIsi and gives you an Ethernet
- interface and the floating-point unit that Apple should put there
- in the first place (grr!) and a PDS pass-through.
-
- >One of the things that really bothered me about the 3.0 presentation that
- >the local NeXT rep gave was his attitude towards this. "Why would ANYBODY
- >want to use 230K/sec?" Well, to support technology that is already in
- >existance and in abundance?
-
- And even Apple admits is *dead*.
-
- >As far as I can tell, NeXT is not ever going to support LocalTalk. Considering
- >that they use 8530's for their serial ports (same as in mac's), I can't imagine
- >why they wouldn't want to spend the small amount of time (compared to
-
- Whoa. NeXT's serial ports wheeze at 38.4Kb. You might have
- better luck with the DSP. Note that Yrrid's TTYDSP product
- supposedly tops out at 128Kb, however.
-
- > If someone could point me in the direction of SLIP or
- > MIDI driver source code, this would be sufficient.
-
- NeXT's MIDI driver runs *slower* than 38.4Kb!
-
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