What makes AppleShare special?

[Tristan Mumford <xtristan.xmumford@xgmail.xcom>]

Hello!

I have resumed my experiments on remotely booting my IIgs, and how things
react to it. It's definitely a learning experience!

I haven't made GS/OS boot properly yet. By that I mean it loads its core and
then whatever program is specified in the startup option in the AppleShare
server... Unless its something like Finder. That just dies.
I believe that's just the fault of a version mismatch I inadvertently
introduced. It can load some prodos16 and every prodos8 program I have
tried so far.

After it loads prodos8, I noticed that it is network aware. Ie instead of a
slot allocation for a volume it reported the remote volume as "Network".

This is what got me wondering. Is there something special about AppleTalk
built into ProDOS, or is it just a generic networking interface. If so
where can I find out about the APIs etc?
I just thought it would be nice to have support for other methods of
filesharing. Ie something not so Apple specific.
I guess the only way it would be able to remote boot with another network
protocol would be a ROM card or something, but that's a little beyond the
scope of my idea.
Even a boot floppy loading GS/OS with a different network driver would be
fine by me!

Does something like this already exist, and if not is it possible?

Tristan.


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