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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
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Date: 8 Dec 88 17:53:29 GMT
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Reply-To: akk2@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Atul Kacker)
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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.

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