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AppleTalk networking on the Atari 8-bit

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How come LocalTalk was never adapted to the 8-bit Atari?

"When the newly-christened AppleTalk shipped in early 1985, it included a number of compromises. These included a speed of 230.4 kbit/s, 1000 feet maximum distance, and only 32 nodes per LAN...The entire networking stack required only about 6 kB of RAM"

AppleTalk uses a Zilog 8035

AppleTalk was included in some 68000 Atari computers

Opensource drivers for AppleTalk called Netatalk

The history of LocalTalk hardware

Looks like a similar implementation of the RS-422 Corvus OmniNet

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