Re: Ethernet card- alternatives

[taob@ionews.io.org (Brian Tao)]

In article <9312091709.AA05347@fert2.fe.psu.edu>, Jason A. Jeffries writes...
> 
> Oh, that's nifty! So then what you are saying is that when the GS is
> using AppleTalk, it's attention is entirely devoted to that and nothing
> else?

    Pretty much... have you seen some of the older Macs handle file
transfers using PublicFolder over AppleTalk?  The machine pretty much
freezes up while the data is being sent.

> Perhaps with a _very_ fast Zip they could be used as serial ports
> connected to a fast modem?

    What would be more economical is a buffered high-speed serial port
with something like a Z80 to shuffle data from the port into a bit of
on-board RAM (say, 64K) and hold it for the CPU to retrieve it at its
leisure.
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