Re: Appletalk on IIC

[wshek@ibm.net]

>   Same reason why a //e with Super Serial Card (or clone) or PC can't
>do Appletalk right out of the box-- Apple used nonstandard serial
>chips to pull off Appletalk in the first place. Their choice, and
>while it may have been to get extra performance and ease of use, it's
>an evolutionary dead end, replaced by ethernet, a much better choice
>for stuff.
>

Hey this is 'all' just trivia at this point even the dear //gs. However
the 'extra hardware' is just serial buffering. Of course as with
anything else you can move function to firmware to improve
performance or ease of use.

Lets not make rocket science out of a proprietary simple
architecture. And since it exists in the mac at no cost to the
user (ie no ether card required) it will be used till it too 
is removed from the OS.

-Walt