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- From: ferch@ucs.ubc.ca (Les Ferch)
- Subject: Re: Hooking a PC into an AppleTalk Network
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- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 06:22:45 GMT
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- In <1992Sep3.192313.7728@sura.net> wbarnes@sura.net (Bill Barnes) 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.
-
- PhoneNetTalk PC supports a 3Com ethernet card (others?). The new version
- may support more cards.
-