ajauch@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Alexander Edwin Jauch) (12/05/89)
Thank you all for your kind attention! A very nice woman (lady?) from Apple sent me a piece of e-mail that made my day. She points out that the TokenTalk card *comes with* software that allows the mac to use a pc-lan network! Bonus!! I love Apple so much! Of course no one in their right mind would use token ring if they were not running pc-lan. Which means that Apple should logically want to support pc-lan software, but whip me till I bleed, I've been working with IBM so long, I assumed it would'nt be this easy. One further question though, if we get a gateway to ethernet and tcp/ip, will the mac be able to use it? My friend at Apple was not able to answer this one. Is anyone out there using a token ring to tcp/ip gateway with a mac? Anybody got any theories about this? My first guess is that this should work fine. Since the PC's will be running tcp/ip emulations locally, I don't know why the Mac can't do the same thing. Does anyone know of a good tcp/ip emulator for the mac? Any that explicitly work over token ring? I know that wiring the Mac directly with ethernet would be primo, but I don't think I can shake the bucks for a ethernet backbone or pulling a single wire all the way to my office on the 3rd floor, just for my lonely mac. So please, no more suggestions about "ethernet would really be your best bet", I *know* that! I would love to do it that way, I don't think I can cut the bucks though. I need cheap solutions. Thanks again and in advance! Alex Jauch UCI, AIS ajauch@bonnie.ics.uci.edu