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From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Sun as a Mac file server?
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Date: 27 Sep 89 02:36:28 GMT
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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.  :)

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