TailTalk: A modern async user space AppleTalk stack with Rust and Tokio

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• gregsadetsky 6 minutes ago
  Also, just learned of GlobalTalk ie people bridging their AppleTalk network to the Internet! https://marchintosh.com/globaltalk.html
• codepoet80 8 minutes ago
  Have been waiting for something like this so I could decommission my old Raspberry Pi Netatalk solution. Thank you!
• rrr_oh_man 17 minutes ago
  > AppleTalk is a discontinued proprietary suite of networking protocols developed by Apple Computer for their Macintosh computers.

  Wut? Can you explain for dumb people?

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  • gregsadetsky 2 minutes ago
    AppleTalk is a protocol that was used on classic/vintage Macs (think: early/late 1980s, 1990s) to create local networks. The wikipedia page [0] has a good historical overview, including the parallel rise of ethernet / tcp/ip (which won).

    [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleTalk