On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:41:51PM +0100, Matthew Theobalds wrote:

> On Tuesday, June 12, 2001, at 07:55  pm, Nathan Raymond wrote:
>
> > Someone would have to add LocalTalk support to NetBSD.
> 
> I wouldn't expect anyone to work madly hard just to save me some
> money, of course. However, would it be a worthwhile addition to
> NetBSD? Do you think the system as a whole would benefit from it?

theoretically localtalk should be possible for any machine with a
RS422 serial port capable of running at 230.4kbps.  off the top of my
head, I don't know of any non-macs that even have RS422 (possibly NeXT?)
or if they have RS422, that are capable of doing 230.4kbps.

I found some interesting reading on mac serial ports at
http://www.lowendmac.com/tech/serial.shtml

> Assuming that those capable could get hold of the x86 support, how
> difficult would it be to port over?

the x86 support is for ISA-based hardware, as far as I've seen -- hardly
useful in a mac.  :)

NetBSD already has appletalk support -- doing localtalk should be
possible by plugging the serial layer into the network layer, unless I'm
missing something.

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