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Posted by: robin-fo on 2023-03-03 15:08:43
Hi everyone
In the early days of Mac OS X, there were a few machines with hardware LocalTalk support which officially supported Mac OS X. As far as I know, Mac OS X never supported LocalTalk.
Were there any hacks which enabled LocalTalk on OS X or attempts to do this? A/UX appears to natively support LocalTalk, at least its AppleTalk stack upon which the ones of AIX and Mac OS X appear to be based. |
Posted by: Nixontheknight on 2023-03-03 15:38:13
Hi everyone
In the early days of Mac OS X, there were a few machines with hardware LocalTalk support which officially supported Mac OS X. As far as I know, Mac OS X never supported LocalTalk.
Were there any hacks which enabled LocalTalk on OS X or attempts to do this? A/UX appears to natively support LocalTalk, at least its AppleTalk stack upon which the ones of AIX and Mac OS X appear to be based. just use an ethertalk to localtalk bridge, that might help |
Posted by: robin-fo on 2023-03-03 15:49:57
just use an ethertalk to localtalk bridge, that might help Of course I can use a bridge or router to receive DDP packets originating from a LocalTalk network 😉. My question however is purely academic and about true & native SCC, LLAP and AppleTalk "nonextended network" support in OS X. |
Posted by: robin-fo on 2023-03-04 12:34:21
How was LocalTalk actually integrated into A/UX? Did the stack directly communicate with the hardware or was it somehow integrated as a dedicated UNIX network interface? Could we do something similar in modern systems?
Edit: Linux appears to implement LocalTalk as Ethernet device: https://docs.kernel.org/networking/device_drivers/appletalk/cops.html |
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