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From: r_osborn@vaxa.uwa.oz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Info Request: IPT Personal Server Network
Message-ID: <1121@vaxa.uwa.oz>
Date: 11 Oct 89 09:42:49 GMT
References: <2048@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk>
Organization: University of Western Australia
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In article <2048@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk>, phil@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk writes:
> A colleague here at the University of Liverpool is interested in a replacement
> for TOPS.  We've heard about the "IPT Personal Server Network", but aside from
> Alexis Rosen's two postings about it we haven't seen any more information about
> it.  Does anyone have any further info (or an address we can mail to to get any
> further info.)  The reason for the interest is because we want a background
> Appleshare server - we don't want a machine that's fully tied up running the
> server software.  The other advantage is that we could have several servers. 
> Are there any other such systems available (I seem to recall hearing rumours
> about Apple making one themselves!!)
> 
> If I receive any replies I'll summarise them here.
> 
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