Re: Apple IIGS networked with PowerPC

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

Jeanne Chappell (momkat@primenet.com) wrote:
: First, excuse me if my information here is not quite correct
: but I will state the question as I understand it.

: I just received a call from a lady asking about getting a hard 
: drive for her IIGS and while talking to her she made the comment 
: that she talked to Apple, Inc and was told that since her PowerMac
: (Performa 6200) had been upgraded with the PowerPC chip that she
: could NOT run an Apple IIGS on a Network with the Performa 6200 as
: the server.

: Is this really the case?

First problem: why would you say a Performa 6200 has been upgraded with a PPC?
Four digit model numbers denote Macs which were born with PPC processors.

Second, why would the particular processor determine what can/can't network?
That's a system software function. I'm still a 68K user, but I have OS 7.6, 
the latest/greatest. It networks just dandily with my IIgs.

The only possible way I can make sense of this advice is to assume that the
person who said it assumed the user was planning to use some version of Apple-
share Server version 4. There are '040-only and PPC-only versions, I forget
the numbering scheme. There is no mention of this, and is very unlikely to
be the case given the price of Appleshare. There is no such concern using
regular ol' file sharing, or Appleshare 3 for that matter.

It's far more likely that there was some bogus info being tossed about. I
wouldn't place much stock in what SOS-APPL types say. Like when I called up
and asked why I couldn't change the boot device on my Quadra 840av running
OS 7.5.5. They didn't try very hard to figure out why, and told me their policy
was not to try too hard and then tell you to get lost. All this despite the 
fact that there is a documented bug in 7.5.5's startup disk control panel,
only affecting 660av's and 840av's. Problem solved after installing 7.6,
no thanks to SOS-APPL.
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Randy Shackelford
shack@southwind.net