pam@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (.) (12/22/88)
Anybody know anything about Linotronics? If you added a Linotronic to a network of Macs on Ethernet, how would you go about getting reasonable throughput to the thing? The Linotronic has only 3 types of ports: RS-232, AppleTalk, and a Centronics parallel port. It seems a shame to be able to zip data data around on the Ethernet lan at 10Mbps, but then have it slow down to a crawl across an Appletalk cable from the front-end Mac II to the Linotronic... Any ideas?? Is there a simple solution to this that I'm overlooking?
ath@helios.prosys.se (Anders Thulin) (12/24/88)
In article <2872@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> pam@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (.) writes: >Anybody know anything about Linotronics? > >If you added a Linotronic to a network of Macs on Ethernet, how would >you go about getting reasonable throughput to the thing? > I don't know if there is any way of attaching the Linotronic directly to an Ethernet. You might be able to do it indirectly, though. One solution might be to put some kind of bridge between the Ethernet and the LocalTalk/AppleTalk. Cayman Systems and Kinetics both seem to have such bridges. -- Anders Thulin INET : ath@prosys.se ProgramSystem AB UUCP : ...!{uunet,mcvax}!enea!prosys!ath Teknikringen 2A PHONE: +46 (0)13 21 40 40 S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden FAX :