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- From: wbarnes@sura.net (Bill Barnes)
- Subject: Re: Hooking a PC into an AppleTalk Network
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.192313.7728@sura.net>
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- References: <1SEP199216431380@zeus.tamu.edu> <1992Sep2.181932.14734@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 19:23:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep2.181932.14734@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> sbk@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
- >Depends on what you want to do with the DOS box once it is on the net. But the
- >basic idea is as follows: buy a LocalTalk card for the PC, install it, then
- >buy Farallon's PhoneNet Talk (which is the AppleTalk protocol stack for DOS).
- >Install it on the PC. This would allow you to log into AppleShare file servers
- >from the PC and to print to AppleTalk-compliant printers on the net (like
- >LaserWriters). The full AppleTalk stack takes ~190K, so I hope you have a 386
- >with memory management (file services takes about 100K, I forget exactly).
-
- Can you run PhoneNet Talk on a PC with an Ethernet card rather than a
- Localtalk card? We've currently got a PC which shares the same Ethernet
- network as our Macs and we'd like it to be able to print to an AppleTalk
- printer, so we'd want the PC to be running Ethertalk, I think.
- --
- Bill "Whassamatter?! Can't you take a joke?!" Barnes wbarnes@sura.net
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