Open transport – Apple Macintosh System 7.5 User Manual
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Open Transport
Open Transport is the modern, industry-standard networking and
communications software for the Mac OS. With Open Transport software
installed on your computer, you can
m use more than one networking system at once (for example, AppleTalk to
communicate with network printers and TCP/IP to connect to the Internet)
m save and modify different networking configurations
m switch among networking configurations quickly and easily
Which computers support Open Transport?
You can use Open Transport on most Mac OS computers that use a PowerPC
processor, or any Mac OS computers that use a 68030 or 68040 processor.
Open Transport is required on most Mac OS computers that use the PCI bus.
If your computer is not PCI-based, classic AppleTalk will initially be installed
with System 7.5. You can use the Network Software Selector (NSS) to switch
from classic AppleTalk to Open Transport if you have at least 5 MB of RAM
(either installed in your computer, or using virtual memory). You’ll find the
NSS utility in the Apple Extras folder after you install System 7.5. To switch
from classic AppleTalk to Open Transport, double-click the NSS utility,
choose Open Transport, and then restart your computer. Then use the
AppleTalk control panel to select the desired network connection.
If you are not using Open Transport because you have 68K computer, you
may want to install the MacTCP control panel. See “Using the Custom Install
Option” in Chapter 1 (“Installing System Software”).
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