Re: Apple IIGS networked with PowerPC

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <false-ya02408000R1303971043210001@news.xmission.com>,
Uwe Denk <false@email.name> wrote:
>Make that four Macs.  These are two PowerPC's, one 68030 and one 68040. 
>The printer is a HP 560c and of course the IIGS.  Never tried to boot from
>any of the Macs,  but they all work fine as servers for file sharing.  The
>IIGS has never been able to act as a file server.  It's firmware version of
>AppleTalk does not include it.

   A fair chunk of the GS's appletalk code is loaded after boot in
software; the reason why it cannot be a filesharer is that Apple did
not write that for it.

Nathan Mates

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