Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!dalcs!aucs!paul From: paul@aucs.UUCP (Paul Steele) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: What's the best NETWORK? Message-ID: <1075@aucs.UUCP> Date: 9 May 88 11:24:23 GMT References: <1814@uhccux.UUCP> <1815@uhccux.UUCP> <781@sleazy.UUCP> Reply-To: paul@aucs.UUCP (Paul Steele) Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia Lines: 23 >My Mac is running diskless, ie my system resides on one of the Sun servers. >Tops for Sun make the Suns into a Mac Fileserver but importantly (at least to >us) it allows the Suns to access all the Laserwriters on AppleTalk, which >the PCs and Macs also access. We are using IDEs Software Through Pictures >> >Alan Heflich >USENET {backbone}!nud!sleazy!Heflich >Internet Heflich @ Dockmaster.arpa > I am curious about the diskless Mac workstation. Does TOPS allow a Mac to boot without any inserted disks? I was under the impression that that was not possible with a networked device, that there had to be some sort of local hard disk to boot from before a mac can access the Appletalk network. Even if this is possible, it seems to me that it would only be suitable if the workstations had a direct ethernet link to the file server. I can't imagine how slow a Mac would be if it tried to access a system folder over 232K bps Appletalk. -- Paul H. Steele USENET: {uunet|watmath|utai|garfield}!dalcs!aucs!Paul Acadia University BITNET: Paul@Acadia Wolfville, NS Internet: Paul%Acadia.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU CANADA B0P 1X0 (902) 542-2201x587