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- Subject: Re: Serial Ports.
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- Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 18:58:44 -0700
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- .snip.
- >How can someone even start to support a protocol, which runs at ~230
- >kilobaud through unbuffered 8250's (16540's) that run at max. 115
- >kilobaud? Besides the baud difference, unbuffered UART's would likely be
- >losing characters at an astronomical rate (as is evidenced by
- >multi-tasking OS's like OS/2 which need at least a buffered UART just to
- >do 9600 without bit loss.
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- You don't. Not unless you have one of those outmodeled PC adapter cards
- for Appletalk manufactured by Dayna or Farallon. Plus the fact, NE2000
- compatible ISA Ethernet combo cards go for $35 these days - a much better
- solution for the money.
-
- >However, supporting appletalk over an ethernet card (ethertalk?) would
- >also seem to be very limiting because of the cost for individual users.
- >How could you hook up your PC to a standard appletalk laser printer using
- >an ethernet card, while not incurring much more expense?
- .snip.
-
- That shouldn't be a factor if you're buying relatively recent printers,
- regardless of whether Apple makes 'em or not. My LaserWriter Pro 630 has
- an AAUI port (apple attachment unit interface) and hooked up to that is a
- $35 transciver for 10baseT. It becomes even more convenient if you want to
- network multiple machines together (either Mac, PC, or both). Now THAT's
- transparent computing - when you can transfer files between different
- machines effortlessly using AppleShare instead of FTP, or NFS.
-
- If you're using an older printer, you'll still have a serial connector (for
- connecting to PC's). I don't know what kind of kludge you'll have to hack
- together to use it though. Probably the same thing you'd do with an old
- LaserJet I imagine.
-
- TC
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