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List:       netbsd-port-mac68k
Subject:    Re: Serial ports (AppleTalk protocol uses LocalTalk and EtherTalk
From:       Nathan Raymond <nate () portents ! com>
Date:       2001-06-14 16:59:30
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Those of you interested in historical trivia, here's everything you 
wanted to know about the Apple II ethernet card:

http://www.apple2.org/AIIEthernet.html

At 7:30 AM +0200 6/14/01, Emile Schwarz wrote:

>Aaron et al.,
>
>AppleTalk is the software protocal.
>LocalTalk is one kind of hardware cables + connectors
>EtherTalk is another kind of hardware cables + connectors (running Ethernet
>protocol inside AppleTalk)
>
>
>But since newbies and historical order of apparition, nearly everyone talk
>AppleTalk the three of them. On another hand, except for techies and 
>people who always want to use the right word for the object, it is 
>not a problem to use AppleTalk as a general word for LAN (or WAN) 
>using Apple Computers (remember that AppleTalk is implemented in 
>Apple IIs using LocalTalk cables; I heard about an Ethernet Card for 
>Apple IIe / Apple IIgs but I never saw it so I don=92t know if it was 
>commercially available)
>
>
>HTH,
>
>Emile

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