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some terminology
Authored by: Auricchio on Jan 20, '03 11:40:59AM
Technically, you're correct that Appletalk is just a protocol; being able to assign it to the modem makes some sense, but not as much as in the days when you had a printer port to use.

Localtalk is the name for Appletalk-over-serial: the protocol and the physical transport. If you're using Ethernet, then it's just called Appletalk (meaning the protocol.)

The Asante bridge converts Ethernet-Appletalk to Localtalk for the printer.

I just wanted to clarify the terminology, because you can't run Localtalk directly from the system---since there's no serial port.

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Re: some terminology
Authored by: daveschroeder on Jan 20, '03 12:54:13PM

Just a little nit-picking:

Actually, AppleTalk over Ethernet is called EtherTalk.

In sum:

AppleTalk - a communication protocol that can travel over various media
LocalTalk - AppleTalk over serial
EtherTalk - AppleTalk over Ethernet



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One more thing...
Authored by: daveschroeder on Jan 20, '03 12:56:02PM

Of course, I should add that, as the original poster said, AppleTalk over Ethernet is usually referred to as simply "AppleTalk".



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