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- From: tom@wcc.oz.au (Tom Evans)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
- Subject: Re: LocalTalk as link level for CAP?
- Message-ID: <2779@wcc.oz.au>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 07:38:56 GMT
- Article-I.D.: wcc.2779
- References: <2390001@otter.hpl.hp.com>
- Organization: Webster Computer Corp, Melbourne, Australia
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- In article <2390001@otter.hpl.hp.com>, sjmz@otter.hpl.hp.com (Stefek Zaba) writes:
- Context: a very small would-be home network comprising
- - an LC-II with no expansion cards, hence no Ethernet
- - an HP375 whose serial port can run at 230kbaud, i.e. LocalTalk
- speed
-
- > The dream:
- > to run CAP on the HP-UX box, *using LocalTalk as the low-level protocol*
- >
- > What sort of work would I be letting myself in for if I were to
- > contemplate writing a LocalTalk link-level protocol
-
- If you can program the HP to run 230,400 baud, FM0-encoded SLDC/HLDC
- with aborts, pulses, microsecond-level timing resolution on RS-422
- (tri-stateable driver), then you've got a chance. Translation - if the
- serial hardware in the HP isn't a Zilog SCC, forget it!
-
- > Save me from this silly thought, please :-)
-
- You'd be better off running SLIP on both ends, or wait for a PD ARA
- server. Or check out ARNS (arns.tar.Z) in the "mac" directory on
- munnari.oz.au.
-
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- Tom Evans tom@wcc.oz.au
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