Subject: Re: A New Request, LocalTalk
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: John Ruschmeyer <jruschme@mac.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/12/2002 15:20:27
Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, John Ruschmeyer wrote:
>
>
>>Hauke Fath wrote:
>>
>>>At 14:20 Uhr -0700 9.6.2002, Randy Beaudreault wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>How about documents on LocalTalk hardware?
>>>
>>>
>>>There is no "Localtalk hardware" other than the Zilog 8530 which is well
>>>documented. That is the whole point of Localtalk, btw...
>>
>>IIRC, one of the vendors of the 8530 used to have an application note
>>(available as a PDF, no less) on low-level LocalTalk programming.
>
>
> Hmmm... Apple counts as a vendor. Would InsideAppletalk, second ediiton
> count as an App note?
>
> There's an appendix that describes how to implement LocalTalk.
>
> When I was working on this, it's what I used as a base.
I think it was actually this one:
http://www.zilog.com/docs/z180/loctalk.pdf
entitled "Technical Considerations When Implementing LocalTalk".
Then, of course, there is also supposedly some good low-level code (68k
assembler) in the Stanford Ethernet AppleTalk Gateway sources.
<<<john>>>