Everything about FastPath
The Kinetics FastPath was a LocalTalk-to-Ethernet bridge created in 1985 to allow Apple Macintosh computers to communicate with other computers on Ethernet networks. The product had five significant revisions during its lifetime and was ultimately sold to Shiva Corporation late in its existence. The original FastPath was developed to extend AppleTalk on Ethernet for Apple Computer, but from the beginning it was also modeled after an implementation of the Stanford Ethernet–AppleTalk Gateway (SEAGATE) created at Stanford University Medical Center by Bill Croft in 1984 and 1985. SEAGATE was a combination of hardware and software that picked up IP packets from the Ethernet network and encapsulated them inside of DDP packets on the AppleTalk network and conversely picked up specially-encoded DDP packets on the AppleTalk network and placed them on the Ethernet network as IP packets. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: FastPathA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Introduction to Open Core ProtocolThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Go sideways: MacIPA closely related topic
- Go sideways: LocalTalk-to-Ethernet bridgeA closely related topic
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đź“š Books worth reading
Introduction to Open Core ProtocolW David Schwaderer · 2012- 📕Subfile Technique for Rpg/400 Programmers/ Ringbound (The Fastpath)Jonathan Yergin, Wayne Madden · 1994
Introduction To Open Core Protocol Fastpath To Systemonchip DesignDavid Schwaderer · 2012
Introduction to Open Core ProtocolW. David Schwaderer · 2012
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