From: Norman Palardy (palardyn_at_shaw.ca)
Date: Tue Oct 21 2003 - 07:43:16 PDT
On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 12:59 AM, Robert Benschop wrote:
> Frank Gruendel wrote:
>> I've learned today that our system administrators switched off all
>> AppleTalk.
>
> Why?
Lots of places do this because "Appletalk is chatty".
No more so than IPX/SPX or anything MS ever created, but the rumor
persists.
>> Our administrator, who until eight hours ago hadn't ever seen
>> a Newton, said that this should be sufficient to connect if he
>> sets up a fixed IP address for me. Which he would have done
>> if his computer's hard disk hadn't died the very moment the
>> promise was made.
>
> At least justice was done ;-)
Ahhhh the gods have cursed him for having switched off Appletalk.
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