AppleTalk is not an "inferior" protocol at all. It is designed for simplicity and convenience on a local area network, and does the job quite well. TCP/IP never matched the convenience of AppleTalk on a LAN until Apple recently introduced Rendevous. Modern servers and clients support AppleShare over IP, which provides the convenience of finding and logging into servers using AppleTalk, then actually transferring data using IP for higher throughput.
I knew that there was some connection between rendez vous and appletallk...
Of course you are absolutely right about appletalk being a lot more user friendly, in that it is superiour to tcp/ip. But it also has disadvantages, the main disadvantage being a lack of speed and the fact that modern hubs seem better at handling tcp/ip than appletalk. In a home office that does not matter much, but if you have to network some 25 clients and devices in an office building or department it is a pain in the ***.
Marten
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