[WinMac] Re: MacTCP (slightly off-topic)

Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Sun, 2 May 1999 16:38:29 -0500

        Interesting problem... Here's a few considerations to think about:

        Open Transport will run on System 7.1 as well as System 7.5.2 & up, but
NOT System 7.5 & 7.5.1...

        P5200's had a lot of hardware problems, and Apple had motherboard
replacement programs. These same problems occurred on the P62xx and
Performa 6300 machines - But not the Performa 6360;

        If memory serves me correctly, some brands of L2 cache worked, and some
didn't. You can yank the cache and max out the RAM, and the performance
should be about the same - Especially if you have File Mapping disabled
(Virtual Memory disabled);

        There was no System 7.5.4. Systems 7.5.3 and 7.5.5 have the Network
Selector Switch, allowing you to switch between Classic networking and Open
Transport;

        MacOS 7.6 & up has Open Transport only;

        AppleTalk 58.1.5 and MacTCP 2.0.6 were the last versions of Classic
networking. AppleTalk 58.1.5 is available on the NSI-ZM 1.5.1 installer
floppy.

        Hope this helps!
        Dan

At 09:09 AM 5/2/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello. This is slightly off-topic, but was mentioned here "recently"
>
>I've got a frined with a Performa 5200 whom I'm helping to get it on the
>internet with a cable modem. To make a long story short, MacTCP doesn't
>seem to work with the DHCP server that our cable provider has and I was
>wondering if anyone knew of an alternative that we might use. I know
>someone asked the same question here and was given a bunch of options, so
>I'm asking again :)
>
>I can't use TCP/IP because we can't load OPen Transport on this machine
>due to a hardware limitation (needs replacemente of the cache/rom DIMM).
>We might get around to doing that, but for now he wants to surf. I can't
>remember if there is a way to run Classic Networking on system 7.6.1 and
>above, right now we're on 7.5.1.
>
>Thank you
>
>Alex Dearden
>MCSE
>pata@doglover.com

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