🚀 go-pugleaf

That's a problem that a few of us at CMU have just taken up; we are trying to
connect Macintoshes to the campus internet here, for eventual hookup to the
Vice fileservers. Our hope is that eventually we can make the fileservers
look to the Macintosh like a large HFS hard disk.

Part of that problem is hooking the Macintosh to the internet, which can
basically carry anything. The problem with trying to go from Appletalk to
Token Ring is that the Token Ring chipset alone costs about $200. It's highly
unlikely that you could build an interface box for less than that...

One option we are exploring is hooking Appletalk networks to an Kinetics
AppleTalk to Ethernet gateway, and hooking the gateway onto the campus
internet. I know that the CS department here has a Macintosh on the
Ethernet...

Maybe it is possible to shove Appletalk over a TokenRing, but I don't know
for sure.


			--Richard Siegel
				(MacinVice group, Carnegie-Mellon University)

(rs4u@andrew.cmu.edu)