[CDG5] LocalTalk thoughts

[Elliot Nunn]

Correction: seems that Daniel and I have actually made different suggestions. Sorry!

He mentioned “AToIP”, I mentioned “LToUDP”.

> On 19 Jun 2020, at 9:58 am, Elliot Nunn <elliotnunn at fastmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Very cool project! I second what Daniel said: consider giving it enough protocol stack to support LToUDP.
> 
> I don’t think I’ve ever touched the ltlk resources. IIRC they were build separately from the rest of the System, and I’ve never seen the AppleTalk source tree. I will check at home.
> 
> BTW something related that I hacked on last night: trying to get the Classic’s NetBOOT driver to work inside Mini vMac.
> 
>> On 19 Jun 2020, at 7:05 am, Jason Duerstock <evilmoo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> So a friend and I have been taking a stab at trying to figure out how
>> to make a LocalTalk bridge with the least hardware and fewest
>> soldering burns.  After learning all the sordid details of the Z8530
>> chip, FM0 encoding, SDLC, RS-422 and a lot of other voodoo, it
>> occurred to me that a lot of this pain could be saved if I accepted
>> that my connection was going to be a short cable and that it was going
>> to be a point-to-point connection.  Which leads me to my question to
>> you all:
>> 
>> Have any of you looked at any of the "ltlk" resources and any of the
>> code involved?
>> 
>> Jason
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