tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney) (01/26/85)
Thank you for the summary of Mac and Appletalk (does this mean all my AppleBus manuals are obsolete? :-) strategies. One thing: Your speculation on gateway/routing hardware has been an issue for some time, not only here at C-MU, but at Stanford, Dartmouth, and other places as well. Product announcements may be distant, but deployment and testing ought to be done this year. Some products at other places may be nearing completion. A 68000-based router (not a Mac, although possibly downloadable from one) with an AppleBus interface as well as others of various kinds seems like the best idea. The big loser is the single Macintosh to other network hookup given current designs. Clusters are more the idea. A single Ethernet card for the Mac is not in the works here, although there is a box for Lisa. I don't know about compatibility with "Mac XL" or what model Lisa it works with -- anyone used one of these boxes? I just have the Apple doc for it. (And that's not here at home.) -=- Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University Computation Center ARPA: Tim.Maroney@CMU-CS-K uucp: seismo!cmu-cs-k!tim CompuServe: 74176,1360 audio: shout "Hey, Tim!" "Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains." Liber AL, II:9.