OK,

I have implemented "Localtalk" networks, which at that time were known 
as "appletalk" before it was abstracted to ethernet "ethertalk" etc.

I had a bunch of Mac XL's (xtra Lisa) hooked to Mac 512k's some upgraded 
to 2meg of ram with Levco enterprises Monstermac.

I also had a pc on the Localtalk net with a card that had the SCC for 
the original PC bus (PCmacbridge?).

Everybody could print to the Laserwriter (original) and Mac's could 
share a Helix database.

Pretty rockin' for 1986.

My apparently faulty memory says that at the time the throughput was 
128K bits per second.  But as far as I can tell, it does look like 
230.4kbps is the hardware spec all macs with serial ports have shared 
for localtalk.

I guess the IIci should actually be capable of communicating with the 
stupid Epson 800 then(under netbsd)....

Marty



On Wednesday, June 13, 2001, at 04:29 PM, Aaron J. Grier wrote:

> 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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