Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!tim@lll-crg.ARPA@hoptoad.UUCP From: tim@lll-crg.ARPA@hoptoad.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: Mac SCSI to Ethernet interface from Kinetics ? Message-ID: <8612092027.AA04474@hoptoad.uucp> Date: Tue, 9-Dec-86 15:27:22 EST Article-I.D.: hoptoad.8612092027.AA04474 Posted: Tue Dec 9 15:27:22 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 10-Dec-86 02:24:13 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 26 Approved: info-applebus@c.cs.cmu.edu Kinetics announced in their last catalog that they would have a SCSI-Ethernet card in their next catalog; I don't know what the scheduling is for that, but I'm looking forward to it. I have been writing my IP to support plug-in network modules, and I hope to write an Ethernet module as soon as the boards are available and make it part of the standard IP distribution. The TOPS distributed inter-OS file system is being ported to run on top of a TCP transport layer in order to make an Ethernet TOPS straightforward. This will also help move TOPS onto other transport layers, the current ATP protocol being fairly non-standard. I know Tim McCreery doesn't like to toot his own horn, but I would like to see a brief description of this important product. If Ralph feels the same way, how about it? A Mac NFS could also be implemented on top of my (or another protocol-format rather than linked-library) UDP, but NFS was developed on minicomputers and is a bit much for Macs and PCs to handle. PC-NFS is a client only, making direct PC-to-PC connection impossible. The same would apply to a 512K Mac, which has even less RAM to spare than a 640K PC. TOPS fits on either of these machines comfortably, while providing the same functionality and UNIX and (soon) VMS connections. The chief advantage of NFS at this point is that it runs on Ethernet rather than Appletalk. -- Tim Maroney, Electronic Village Idiot {ihnp4,sun,well,ptsfa,lll-crg,frog}!hoptoad!tim (uucp) hoptoad!tim@lll-crg (arpa)