Re: GS+Appletalk Phase 2

[mday@apple.com (Mark Day)]

In article <1jgeslINNhkj@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>,
jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu (James L. Brookes) wrote:
> 
> In article <mday-180193162355@daybreak.apple.com> mday@apple.com
> (Mark Day) writes:
> [...]
> >a way to select the timeout for ATP XO transactions (which was previously
> >hard-coded), and a new wildcard feature in NBP lookups.  These changes are
> >optional but encouraged for LocalTalk products; they have already been
> >incorporated into System 6 and will be in the Apple II Ethernet Card.
>                                                              ^^^
> Is this a typo?  Or will the card have Ethernet capability?
> 
> >Mark Day, Apple Computer, Inc.
> >mday@apple.com
> 
> [desperately hoping the latter :]
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That's what the product is going to be called (at least, that was the name
the Marketing folks are using).  We're not planning on providing support
for developers to send or receive non-AppleTalk frames.  We will at least
try to leave some hooks in the firmware so that it could be done in
software
at a later time.

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Mark Day, Apple Computer, Inc.
mday@apple.com