ALLIN1@aston.ac.UK (10/13/88)
Date: 12-Oct-1988 17:40 GMT Subject: Request for GATORBOX and appletalk info From: G Bellavia <BELLAVIAG@uk.ac.aston> Dept: Computer Science Tel No: 021 359 3611 X5289 TO: Remote Addressee ( _POST INFO-APPLETALK%EDU.CMU.ANDREW@ This is question about future trends in appletalking in general. I have heard about the gator box and have already a kinetics installed here at the computer science dept at Aston University. From the detailed information about the gator box it sounds like a wonderful machine but I am concerned about the type of media used to connect macs to the box. Now localtalk cabling is cheap but SLOW, the gator box allows for replaceable interface boards. What type of interface board is currently available besides the localtalk card? and what is envisaged to become available in the future, what about twisted pair ethernet for instance or a connection card to broadband. In addition will the gatorbox be compatible with the new products to be released from the joint DEC APPLE venture (end 89) or will this venture produce their own gateway? Finally I heard some rumours on this net a while ago that apple were to release a tcp/ip network. Is this true? By the way I am also using CAP here on a sun but have completely failed at porting the code to our orion 1/05 and sequent balance system. After looking at the c code it was shown that the CAP c code is very unportable and makes a lot of assumptions about the c compiler. We have much stricter c compilers here. If you know anything of the above please reply. Thanks Mr Gino Bellavia Senior Computer Officer Department of Computer Science Aston University Birmingham UK tel 021-359-3611 extn 5289