Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!SHahn@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA From: SHahn@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: MAC expansion Message-ID: <16320@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Feb-84 05:18:21 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.16320 Posted: Thu Feb 2 05:18:21 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 03:46:22 EST Lines: 13 From: Sam HahnAs I understand from Apple, the AppleBus (as yet an incomplete product) will enable Macintosh and Lisa type machines (on the order of 30 such) to be interconnected more or less in a BUS manner, and not in a true network (I quote here from the Apple representative at Stanford on Feb 1). Other devices, such as printers, may also be on the bus. No fancy CSMA/CD. Bus requires a bus master. Hardware is basically cabling; most of the product is software. -- sam hahn -------