was originally designed as a no brainer peer to peer solution for connecting multiple users to, at that time, expensive laser printers. It was also useful for file sharing. The fact that it stayed on the market so long demonstrated how sucessful and useful it was for its original intended purpose. It was at least a couple of years ahead of MS Windows built in peer to peer networking (probably longer but I am too lazy to do any research). Appletalk just worked. I used it for my home network until ethernet support and devices were cheap enough to justify purchasing for home use. The fact that the protocol was not routable was not an issue for its original intended purpose.
The Presidential seal belongs to the citizens of the USA:
"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
from Egypt too, after my fucking ISP took all of my money and hundreds of others for a year's worth of ADSL service then cut our service and closed the company!
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was originally designed as a no brainer peer to peer solution for connecting multiple users to, at that time, expensive laser printers. It was also useful for file sharing. The fact that it stayed on the market so long demonstrated how sucessful and useful it was for its original intended purpose. It was at least a couple of years ahead of MS Windows built in peer to peer networking (probably longer but I am too lazy to do any research). Appletalk just worked. I used it for my home network until ethernet support and devices were cheap enough to justify purchasing for home use. The fact that the protocol was not routable was not an issue for its original intended purpose.
The Presidential seal belongs to the citizens of the USA: "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
from Egypt too, after my fucking ISP took all of my money and hundreds of others for a year's worth of ADSL service then cut our service and closed the company!