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Subject: Re:  Mac SCSI to Ethernet interface from Kinetics ?
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Date: Wed, 10-Dec-86 10:19:19 EST
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In article <8612092027.AA04474@hoptoad.uucp> tim@lll-crg.ARPA@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>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
>
>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
>--
>Tim Maroney, Electronic Village Idiot
>{ihnp4,sun,well,ptsfa,lll-crg,frog}!hoptoad!tim (uucp)
>hoptoad!tim@lll-crg (arpa)

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 have a Vax11/750, ~10Macs, and will shortly have 9 Suns, with more to come
in the next year or so.  We very much want them to be able to work together.
At very least we'd like to be able to transparently access the Sun hard discs
from the Mac.  (That is the Mac can store its files on the Sun, not that 
the Mac be able to always read files generated by the sun.)

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 yougoing 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)


Todd Olson

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