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AppleTalk
AppleTalk - AppleTalk is a set of local area network communication protocols originally created for Apple computers. An AppleTalk network can support up to 32 devices and data can be exchanged at a speed of 230.4 kilobits per second (Kbps). Devices can be as much as 1,000 feet apart. AppleTalk's Datagram Delivery Protocol corresponds closely to the network layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) communication model.How it affects me: When the computer lab had Macintosh computers and a network was created there in 1995, AppleTalk was used to connect the computers to the printer and file server.
Selected Link: MacTech: AppleTalk Fundamentals.
by Sue Cooper
AppletalkA local area network protocol developed by Apple Computer for communication between Apple Computer products and other computers. There are implementations for LocalTalk, EtherTalk, and Token Ring networks. A PC can connect to an AppleTalk network using an adapter card; UNIX and VAX computers can also be set up to use AppleTalk.
Source: High Tech Dictionary
http://www.computeruser.com/resources/dictionary/
by Constanza Bacca & Pedro Willging
APPLETALK-is the Apple
network used by Macintosh operating system. The AppleTalk protocol
involves high level file sharing using AppleShare. Each computer
on an AppleTalk network has an AppleTalk address consisting of a node number
and a network number. Node numbers can range from 1 to 253 (254 on LocalTalk).
Network numbers are two bytes long and can range from 1 to 65535.
This can also be written in dotted decimal notation as 0.1 to 255.255.
This is the same as writing a four-byte Internet Protocol (I.P.) address
in the form 128.250.1.21. The Writing and Research lab in our school
district uses an Appletalk network to print and share files.
Resource: Appletalk Fundamentals
by Mike Sennert
AppleTalk- AppleTalk is a specific network ("series of communications protocols") for Macintosh. AppleTalk consists of two phases. Phase 1 is the earlier version and supports a single physical network that can have only one network number and be in one zone. Phase 2 supports multiple logical networks on a single physical network and allows networks to be in more than one zone. AppleTalk supports Apple's LocalTalk, Ethernet, and IBM Token Ring. AppleTalk will connect computers and printers. It will also connect to PCs if they are equipped with special AppleTalk hardware and software.
by Kristin Zage
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Last updated: 31 July 2000