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From: pemurray@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Peter Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT as a fileserver for IBM?
Message-ID: <2785.2736a3b8@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Date: 6 Nov 90 16:51:20 GMT
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In article <9840@helios.TAMU.EDU>, keithp@xeno.tamu.edu (Keith D Perkins) writes:
> I'm thinking of putting in a network of IBMs hooked into a NeXT. I'd
> like the IBMs to see the NeXT over the network as just a large
> hard drive. Is there any way to make the IBM do this. The NeXT
> looks like the perfect machine for a fileserver, I'm just not
> sure the IBMs are up to it.

We do something similar with our lab of IBMs.  We have approx. 60 IBM PCs
using a DEC MicroVAX running Ultrix as a fileserver using PC-NFS available
from SUN.  NeXT uses NFS, so I don't see a problem.

Peter
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