[fa.info-mac] What is happening with AppleBus?

info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) (07/29/84)

From: Robb Foster <robb@bbncca.ARPA>
	As an attendee a while ago at the AppleBus
Developers' Seminar in glorious Cupertino, I was
quite taken by the lack of intention expressed
by most other attending parties as to what they
were going to do with AppleBus.  Since my return
to the East Coast, I have heard nothing except
vague rumors about AppleBus and plaintive queries
which have gone unheeded.  Thus, I thought that
it might be time to test the waters.

	Soon after my return from Apple, I started
playing around with the hardware and software that
we had been given at the seminar.  After some initial
debugging of the software, I have had, for at least
a month now, an operational AppleBus which is currently
limited to four nodes only because of my lack of
enough AppleBus hardware to link any more together.

	Some others and I here at BBN are in the
process of developing remote servers for various
purpose to run on the AppleBus, and we are having
a good degree of success in our development.

	Is anyone else out there, either Consortium
or non-Consortium, using AppleBus?  Would you like
to talk about it?

Robb