Re: AppleTalk

["Michael Pender" <mpender@hotmail.com>]

Scott Alfter <salfter@salfter.dyndns.org> wrote in message
news:iTrSa.11718$Bp2.8589@fed1read07...
> In article <MqjSa.32191$EZ2.7642@nwrddc01.gnilink.net>,
> Michael Pender <mpender@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >Can a person transfer a file via AppleTalk to the slot 5 ramdisk and use
> >that like a floppy?
>
> You could...don't know what point there would be, other than to pull the
> files from the network once and run from the RAMdisk after that.  (Come to
> think of it, that'd be much faster, so as long as any changes made to the
> RAMdisk get sent back to the server before you shut off (or if you make no
> changes you want to keep), this might let you get better performance from
a
> diskless system.)

That's what I had in mind:
- select a disk image from the server (networked computer)
- transfer the disk image file via AppleTalk
- expand the disk image onto the slot 5 RAM disk
- run from the slot 5 RAM disk as if it were the floppy from which the DSK
image was made
- when done, update the disk image on the server.

Unfortunately, it sounds like this could only work with a Mac as a
fileserver if it were running Appleshare 3.0 and System 7.  There remains
the possibility of doing this for a PC as a fileserver though.  Also, it
probably wouldn't work with DOS 3.3 titles without faking a Disk II device
signature and replacing the RWTS interface code.

- Mike