Re: AppleTalk

[Jalapeno <jalapeno1@mac.com>]

In article <3DBF6307.FECB39BB@alltel.net>,
 bill malcolm <wm65805@alltel.net> wrote:

> David Empson wrote:
> 
> > "Joel" <joelbuckley54.nospam.@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Can AT be used for file-sharing between Apple IIs?
> >
> > No, because no-one has written an Apple II version of the server side of
> > the file sharing software.  The Apple II can be a client to something
> > else acting as a server (typically a Mac).
> >

> The Term is call Responder  --- which the IIe/IIGS lacks --  Reason is 65816
> has got too much to do the hand that also.
> 

What term? David Empson is correct. AppleTalk responders (at least the 
only use of the term with which I am familiar) are on client machines 
for network admin purposes. Admin tools (Apple's Inter*Poll or Neon's 
Netminder, for example) keep track of network topologies via a 
broadcast/response dialog. The IIe workstation firmware contains a 
responder entity and the IIgs loads a responder entity with the ram 
based ATalk drivers.

Unless that is not what you meant by "call Responder".

In any case, file sharing using Appletalk between IIe's (with a 
workstation card) and/or IIgs' is only limited by the lack of a server 
entity for the II, not the hardware. Apple only provided client entities.