AppleTalk
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Stands for: AppleTalk (Apple networking protocol suite)
Apple's plug-and-play networking suite of the 1980s and 90s - zero-configuration before the term existed, now discontinued.
Introduced in 1985, AppleTalk let Macs and LaserWriters self-assign addresses and find each other with no router or server - built into every Mac. It ran over LocalTalk, then EtherTalk (Ethernet) and TokenTalk (Token Ring). Unusually for its era it was not based on Xerox XNS. TCP/IP eroded it through the 1990s, and Apple ended support in Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard, 2009), pointing users to Bonjour - which carries its zero-config spirit forward on IP.
Also known as: appletalk, ethertalk, tokentalk, localtalk, ddp