Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ut-sally!im4u!rutgers!sri-spam!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!jc@seismo.CSS.GOV@cdx39.UUCP From: jc@seismo.CSS.GOV@cdx39.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.protocols.appletalk Subject: Submission for mod-protocols-appletalk Message-ID: <8612111737.AA07044@adelie.Adelie.COM> Date: Thu, 11-Dec-86 12:22:30 EST Article-I.D.: adelie.8612111737.AA07044 Posted: Thu Dec 11 12:22:30 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Dec-86 22:05:45 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 57 Approved: info-applebus@c.cs.cmu.edu Path: cdx39!jc From: jc@cdx39.UUCP (John Chambers) Newsgroups: mod.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: Mac SCSI to Ethernet interface from Kinetics ? Summary: You're not the only one... Message-ID: <525@cdx39.UUCP> Date: 11 Dec 86 17:22:20 GMT References: <8612092027.AA04474@hoptoad.uucp> <8612101519.AA22441@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu> Organization: Codex Corp, a division of Motorola; Canton, MA, USA Lines: 46 > 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! :-) -- John M Chambers Phone: 617/364-2000x7304 Email: ...{adelie,bu-cs,harvax,inmet,mcsbos,mit-eddie,mot[bos]}!cdx39!{jc,news,root,usenet,uucp} Smail: Codex Corporation; Mailstop C1-30; 20 Cabot Blvd; Mansfield MA 02048-1193 Clever-Saying: For job offers, call (617)484-6393 evenings and weekends.