Re: Linking GS's!

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <DB4BFu.69F@cs.dal.ca>,
Tony Cianfaglione <ab616@ccn.cs.dal.ca> wrote:
>   I was thinking of linking two GS's together in one large tower so that 
> I could run all the various boards (there are more than 7). How would I 
> go about talking from one to another? AppleTalk? PhoneNet?

AppleTalk is a set of communications protocols.  The wiring system is
called "LocalTalk".  LocalTalk and PhoneNet are operationally
identical, just using different cabling and drop boxes.  AppleTalk
runs happily over either (I'm using a PhoneNet equivalent to link my
two IIgses and ImageWriter II, and a Mac on rare occasions).

The IIgs can access a Mac file server (either running AppleShare or
System 7 with File Sharing), but there is no software that allows a
IIgs to act as a server.

Short of writing your own software, all you can use AppleTalk for is
to access a Mac-based file server or print server, or networked
printers.

> They would share 4 hard drives and 3 power supplies. Could I get a
> split-screen effect on the monitor so that I could control both
> desktops at once? 

Hardly likely, even if you could get the computers to talk to each other.

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz
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