Re: GS+AFP Unix server

[philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough)]

In article <C187IL.GJ5@rice.edu> jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu (Jim Wong) writes:
>In article <1993Jan20.164316.29279@eskimo.com> lurch@eskimo.com (Erik Kloeppel) writes:
>>
>>My apologies.. I did mean localtalk (which is a joke, I'm sorry)  I have
>>NOT seen Ethertalk yet (though I intend to) and To
>
>Joke it may be, but it lets me network my GS and my Mac for about $35.
>Not to mention the fact that there are situations in which the speed
>advantage of Ethernet simply isn't relevant.

That is very true. Localtalk is hardly a joke though. The throughput gains
for Ethertalk'd networked are not that great for the most part. On the other
hand there is a new 100BaseVG (proposed ?) standard which would be 10 times
faster than the current Ethernet specifications.
 
Philip McDunnough
philip@utstat.toronto.edu