Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/22
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At 6:30 PM -0700 8/21/03, Eric Welch wrote:
>Appletalk is dead (so to speak) and not compatible with Rendezvous
>as you point out. You must use TCP/IP. Appletalk is a very noisy
>protocol that network administrators hate. It's slow, and not very
>useful for any network that shares between Macs and PCs.
>
>On Wednesday, August 20, 2003, at 10:55 AM, Adam Bridge wrote:
>
>>Appletalk continues to be plug and play. Rendezvous solves a very
>>different kind
>>of problem, quite elegantly.
>
>Eric Welch
>Carlsbad, CA
>http://www.jphotog.com
>
>There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by reading. The
>few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the
>electric fence. - Will Rogers.
That applies to Appletalk over Localtalk, not Appletalk over
Ethernet. Appletalk over Ethernet, especially the high speed flavours
is still quite competitive.
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