Re: LocalTalk/AppleShare between IIgs and Mac LC 575 - how?

[david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson)]

"Rodney Hester" <rod3@mindspring.com> writes:
>"David. E. Goble" <goble@gtech> wrote in message
>3b23992e.6530129@news.adelaide.on.net">news:3b23992e.6530129@news.adelaide.on.net...
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>> I was thinking of PC exchange and also the fact you can run system
>> 6.0.1 off a Mac's Prodos partition to run your IIgs. That is if the
>> IIgs is booted with an Appletalk boot floppy. How does this work if
>> Macs can not share Prodos partitions?

>I _think_ it requires AppleShare 3.0 (the server edition), where the IIgs
>acts as a workstation.  Problem is, you have to dedicate your Mac to serving
>to get this to work - hardly worth the effort and expense in today's world
>of Focus drives.  =)

AppleShare 2.x required a dedicated Mac - 3.x does not (although you are
limited in what versions of MacOS it will work with). I boot my //e with
workstation card from a Mac IIsi.
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David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia