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From: rmh@apple.UUCP (Rick Holzgrafe)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: AppleTalk is now called LocalTalk!
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Date: Mon, 7-Dec-87 18:08:45 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  7 18:08:45 1987
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In article <6916@apple.UUCP> rmh@apple.UUCP (Rick Holzgrafe) writes:
> [...] "AppleTalk", which is a set of network
>protocols.

(*Sigh*)  Some days, it just don't pay to get out of bed.
Not three hours after I posted the above, a memo came down
from on high pointing out that AppleTalk is not *just* a set
of network protocols.  AppleTalk is a network *system* which
*includes* a full-function suite of network protocols.  ("So
what's the difference?" I hear you ask.)  The difference is
that when you buy a Mac, you get the AppleTalk *system*: a complete
set of drivers, hardware, and system software for running AppleTalk
over the Apple Personal Network.  This includes accessing printers
and AppleShare file servers and other goodies, all built-in, no
installation necessary. (I'm speaking of the users' workstations,
of course.  Server and spooler software you gotta buy separate,
and they take just a wee bit of installation on their host machines.)

(BTW, the Apple Thought Police won't come after you if you misuse
the term "AppleTalk".  But they WILL come after ME!!  :-)

Sorry if the above sounds more like advertising copy than proper
net discussion.  Having put my foot in my mouth trying to explain
a distinction we at Apple think is important, I now need to pry it
out and correct myself.  (Sound like a popping champagne cork,
accompanied by painful, muffled grunting...)

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