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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.
However, as the basic hardware was built-in to the Mac, adding nodes cost only about $ 50 for the adaptor box.
The entire networking stack required only about 6 kB of RAM.
Additionally, the system was designed for future expansion.
The addressing system allowed for expansion to 255 nodes in a LAN, and using " bridges " ( which came to be known as routers ) one could interconnect LANs into larger collections.
" Zones " allowed devices to be addressed within a bridge-connected internet.
Additionally, AppleTalk was designed from the start to allow use with any potential underlying physical link.
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