Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!akk2 From: akk2@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Atul Kacker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Recommended way to share files? Keywords: NETWORK FILE SHARING PC Message-ID: <461@ur-cc.UUCP> Date: 8 Dec 88 17:53:29 GMT References: <10676@s.ms.uky.edu> Reply-To: akk2@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Atul Kacker) Distribution: na Organization: University of Rochester Lines: 30 In article <10676@s.ms.uky.edu> tek@ms.uky.edu (Thomas E. Kunselman) writes: >What we need is a way to share data between the two 80's and it would be >real nice if we could also share data with the 50'. What would we need >to run a little network just in our office? It would be nice if file >sharing could be as transparent as possible and it would have to be fast >enough to make it comparable to copying say from a floppy to a hard >drive if this is possible? The best (and easiest) thing is to install a TOPS network. TOPS will make things very transparent; subdirectories that are "mounted" on one machine will apear as just another drive to the other machines. The only problem that I can see is that I don't know if the TOPS AppleTalk cards will work on the PS/2's. In any case there are other third party vendors that do make PS/2 cards, that will work with the TOPS FOR DOS software. >We'll be running PC SAS if that will have any affect on the choice of >network and file sharing software? The problem that you may run into is not enough memory. TOPS takes up quite a bit of RAM from the 640K, and SAS (if I remember, right) requires a 640K machine to run. There are memory cards called HYCARDS or something that I have heard people use with TOPS, to squeeze more conventional RAM from your system when using TOPS. Maybe someone else out there has more info on these HYCARDS. -- Atul Kacker | Internet: akk2@uhura.cc.rochester.edu | UUCP: {ames,cmcl2,decvax,rutgers}!rochester!ur-cc!akk2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------