Re: Appletalk on IIC

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <3365065f.0@news1.ibm.net>,  <wshek@ibm.net> wrote:
>In <david.862027332@wraith>, david@uow.edu.au (David E A Wilson) writes:

>I'm not understanding why you need extra hardware, the mac doesn't use it?
>I started AT on my macs using just the extra printer cable I have
>joining the serial ports of 2 machines. (works great)
>As for processor not being enough.... on a //C it's not doing anything else 
>anyway and as for memory .... where do you put stuff you load from a disk
>drive? The //c serial buffering as implemented should be sufficient.

Macs, IIgses, and workstation cards have the Zilog 8530 serial chip and //c's
do not. Not to mention the necessary firmware. And workstation cards have a
dedicated 65C02 on top of all that. So no dice really.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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