AppleTalk Interoperability
AppleTalk was designed for the purpose of being used on Apple networks and, as such, is not natively supported by most of the other major operating systems. Because of this, today, other protocols such as TCP/IP are a more common choice, even for Apple-based networks. In fact, Macintosh systems themselves support the use of TCP/IP. AppleTalk can be configured to work with other platforms, but, given the proliferation of TCP/IP, this is not widely done.