Subject: Re: Serial ports
To: None <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Aaron J. Grier <agrier@poofygoof.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/13/2001 16:29:15
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:55:37PM -0700, Martin Joseph wrote:
> Actually you are half right.

:)

> The IIci only supports "localtalk" (or Appletalk as we used to call
> it) at 128k baud(it does I swear it).

I always heard the terms defined as follows:

appletalk: apple network protocol
localtalk: appletalk over multidrop RS422
ethertalk: appletalk over ethernet

I thought 230.4k was a requirement for doing localtalk?

looks like NetBSD support for localtalk was talked about a few years ago
on tech-net: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-net/1997/02/13/0003.html
has the start of the thread.

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