Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote on 30.11.05 6:17: > I have no idea what you mean by that. Apple computers have been the > *easiest* computers to connect to the internet and utilize high speed > communications, interoperate with a variety of other systems, since > 1986. They were the first computers to include networking hardware > and software in *every* system, first to include 802.11 antennae and > capability, and first to include gigabit ethernet in a standard > production model, > > If what you're talking about is the *ancient* built-in AppleTalk over > twisted pair serial hardware (384kbps HDLC communications, > essentially), well, consider that was available in 1986 when the only > thing available for PCs was serial IO (max 9600bps) or a Novell > Netware solution. And twisted-pair AppleTalk was throttled down to > 384Kbps because it was designed to able to interoperate with an Apple > IIgs using a 6502 processor and that was the fastest that the 6502 > could move data over the line. [...] I think you're not entirely right. I have been using Mac computers for about 12 years in advertising. And I think Rob was thinking about pre Apple Talk over TCP/IP protocol over Ethernet. As such, even implemented over 100 Mb/s networks it was really slow. And it was until Apple implemented AppleTalk over TCP/IP protocol, which was at least 2x faster than plain, old AppleTalk working over Ethernet. These are not just numbers that I read somewhere - this is from my experience - the difference when we switched to Apple Talk over IP was huge, finally network communication was as fast as with Windows based PCs. I don't remember exactly, but I believe AppleTalk over TCP/IP was available from OS 8.x onwards - this means second half of nineties.
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