On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 foxnhare@jps.net wrote: Mac's with a 56K appletalk connection regularly communicate on ethernets with an adapter box. A commodore connection would not be much different as hardware goes. On the other hand, Mac's have the appletalk communication protocol built into the operating system. Serial printers with speeds as low as 9600K with absolutely no network communication capabilities also communicate on ethernets. In this case, all the network hardware and software is in the adapter box. These adapter boxes are usually configured and operated remotely. The printer sees only it's normal serial communication. These, however, do not usually do file sharing. > > > >Forgive my ignorance, but can't incoming data be cached until the computer > > >can process it? > > > >- Bo > > It's not the caching that the problem, but the monitoring and responding (i.e. > keeping up with your neighbors the Pentiums). > > Ok, what sort of real estate are we talking here, 8k 16k for the drivers? I > myself would prefer an alternate that lessens the load on the computer itself. > Then if you want cross-platform compatibility, make it RS-232 interfaceable... > > > The main question is would there be any processing cycles left to 'enjoy' ethernet > on the 64? And if so, then comes the problem of what NOS you will use, because > ultimately people would want to move fies and other data between platforms with > it... or more than likely - route onto the internet with it. > - > This message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list. > To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail cbm-hackers-request@dot.tcm.hut.fi. > - This message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list. To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail cbm-hackers-request@dot.tcm.hut.fi.
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