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- From: sjmz@otter.hpl.hp.com (Stefek Zaba)
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 11:33:33 GMT
- Subject: Re: LocalTalk as link level for CAP?
- Message-ID: <2390002@otter.hpl.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
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- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
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- In comp.protocols.appletalk, tom@wcc.oz.au (Tom Evans) illuminates enough
- of the hardware basis for LocalTalk, thus:
-
- > 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!
-
- for me to be confident that "forgetting it" is exactly the right answer.
- The controller for the serial port is a National 16550. From what I can
- glean, this is a reasonably fast "pure serial" chip, but won't have a
- prayer of handling LocalTalk sensibly. It has a 16 byte (yes, that's
- right, a massive 128 bits :-) buffer, and the native driver supports
- hardware flow control (RTS/CTS), so it sounds as if I'd be able to run
- Kermit/XMODEM/whatever at 230.4kbaud, but not real LocalTalk. Or, indeed,
- running SLIP on both ends at this speed.
-
- > 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.
-
- Checked out --- looks obscenely perfect! Like, all a chap need do is
- bring "async" up on the HP box, and the Async AppleTalk adev on the real
- computer :-), with CAP running on the HP box too? (Presumably ARNS and
- CAP communicate via the local 127.0.0.1 IP address...) Sounds great: I'll
- let you know how I get on.
-
- Many thanks, Stefek
-
- > Tom Evans tom@wcc.oz.au
- > Webster Computer Corp P/L, 1270 Ferntree Gully Rd Scoresby, Melbourne 3179
- > Victoria, Australia 61-3-764-1100 FAX ...764-1179 A.C.N. 004 818 455
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