Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!bionet!sdsu!crash!pnet01!jca From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Sun as a Mac file server? Message-ID: <442@crash.cts.com> Date: 27 Sep 89 02:36:28 GMT Sender: root@crash.cts.com Organization: People-Net [pnet01], El Cajon CA Lines: 29 I'd like to know from the person that is NOT satisfied with Cayman's GatorBox to tell us (especially me) why. One, out of personal curiousity. Two, I'm in charge of tech support for an Apple and Sun MicroSystems VAR; it's my job to know why. I've had one person e-mail me that it's a great thing, another post that it's a great thing, and I have one saying that a Kinetics FastPath would be better. Well, in the mailings I've got from Cayman a GatorBox can emulate a FastPath if desired or if you have a TOPS network. No offense to the TOPS Division of Sun MicroSystems since it is a good piece of software, but TOPS is slow. I hate slow things. Since the GatorBox is a piece of hardware and this this marvelous AFP to NFS conversion I would think that it would perform a lot better than having everything running on TOPS. I've already made arrangements to have our demo unit from Cayman sent to us via UPS Brown for a 45 day trial period and I'll give you all my opinion on it after I've done some testing myself. Of course, the real test is having the box myself for me and everybody in our office to play with. Should be fun having everybody logging in on the Suns from a Mac Plus. :) /*--------------------------------------------------------------------------* * Flames: /dev/null (on my Minix partition) *--------------------------------------------------------------------------* * ARPA : crash!pnet01!jca@nosc.mil * INET : jca@pnet01.cts.com * UUCP : {nosc ucsd hplabs!hd-sdd}!crash!pnet01!jca *--------------------------------------------------------------------------* * Note : My opinions are that...mine. My boss doesn't pay me enough to * speak in the best interests of the company (yet). *--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/