On Tuesday, August 14, 2001, at 02:47 AM, Jon Glass wrote:
> on 8/14/01 1:40 AM, Steve Lombardi at stevelombardi_at_mac.com wrote:
>
>> Of course OS X supports Appletalk! I use it all the time to transfer
>> files between Macs.
>
> Can I poke my nervous little head in here to suggest that maybe the
> confusion is over the terms? LocalTalk is the cabling and hardware
> standard,
> but AppleTalk is the software protocol. I don't think I have the
> terminology
> right, but with LocalTalk (hardware) you can run an AppleTalk network
> (software) You can also run Appletalk over ethernet (hardware) and an IP
> (internet-style) network. The problem is that OS X no longer runs the
> hardware spec called LocalTalk, which makes all those PhoneNet
> adapters I
> have now useful for basically the landfill--excepting that I still have
> three, no four computers that can use these. :-)
Jon,
You're totally right! AppleTalk is the protocol, while LocalTalk is the
physical layer of the network. Right now, OS X supports only EtherTalk,
which is the AppleTalk protocol over an Ethernet network. I don't know
if it's still supported, but there was also TokenTalk, which was the
AppleTalk protocol over a Token Ring network. I haven't seen any
TokenRing cards for Macintosh is a long time now, not that they don't
exist. And I'm pretty sure that it wouldn't be supported on OS X either,
not that anybody probably cares...
-Laurent.
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