Re: appletalk and two GS's

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Neil Parker (nparker@inferno.uoregon.edu) wrote:

: GS/OS includes the Appleshare FST for accessing networked drives over
: Appletalk, but you can't share GS drives in this manner, because nobody
: has ever written an Appleshare server that runs on the GS.  (I don't think
: there's any technical reason why a GS Appleshare server couldn't be
: written, but nobody's done so yet.)

Here's a technical reason: you can bring an 8 MHz Mac screeching to a halt
with file sharing (or full blown Appleshare for that matter) without trying 
very hard. It wouldn't take much effort to do the same thing with a 2.5 MHz
Apple II. I wouldn't be afraid to bet also that the IIgs AFP implementation
wouldn't support it on top of that. I think David Empson has mentioned some-
thing to that effect before.
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