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From: jc@cdx39.UUCP (John Chambers)
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Subject: Re: Mac SCSI to Ethernet interface from Kinetics ?
Summary: You're not the only one...
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> From a user's point of view...
> The physics department that I'm currently at would love to have NFS for the Mac
> even if it was only as a client.  (IE we'd pay a reasonable price for it.)
> 
> We want to use the Macs as terminal as well as on there own.  
> 
> Is anyone else out there in the same situation?  
> How are you going about integrating your computers into one heterogeneous whole?
> For the Venders out there, can you help us, at a reasonable price?
> 	(Or do I have to stop doing physics for a while and write this 
> 	 stuff to my self)

Well, I know of a lot of others in similar situations; I also know of 
a few people who would love to get into solving such problems [myself
included].  

The usual problems is that your boss doesn't see any profit from solving
the general problem when all we need is to get this batch of files over
to that machine.  That's generally easy, by using some sort of terminal
emulator or kermit or cu or ....

In the long run, solving the general case would be better.  But making
it work requires having on hand one (or often two) of each type of 
machine, plus one of each type of network, plus the boards and software
to hook them all together.  This gets expensive!  I can't personally
afford to buy them and install them in my living room, much as I'd
like to.  It's hard to get venture capital unless you've already
shown that you can do it.

It's sort of hard to convince a maker of workstation X that they should
supply their employees with a lot of their competitors' workstations.
After all, why should a company pay their competitors in order to make
it easier to use the competitors' equipment?

Anyhow, if you find someone who wants to work on a general solution 
to your problem, I've got some resumes that I could send them.

Now if I could only persuade each manufacturer to ship me two of
their systems, plus one each of the networks that they support. 
(Such a dreamer! :-)

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