Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!jarthur!uunet!tellab5!wiseman From: wiseman@tellabs.com (Jeff Wiseman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: re: Silverlining ( was Silverplatter ) Message-ID: <4831@tellab5.tellabs.com> Date: 17 Dec 90 18:29:03 GMT References: <39108@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Sender: news@Tellabs.COM Organization: Tellabs, Inc. Lisle, IL Lines: 14 In article aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D Danziger) writes: >Well, SilverPlatter sounds to me like an update to SilverServer, which >is LaCie's version of a file server to be used in conjunction with >SilverLining, their (top of the line) Formatting/Partitioning software >for hard drives. Actually, Silverplatter's only similarity to Silverserver is that it allows network sharing. Silverplatter allows network sharing of serial devices like imagewriters, modems, etc. hanging off a specific mac (ie. not off the network directly like a laserwriter is usually configured. -- Jeff Wiseman: ....uunet!tellab5!wiseman OR wiseman@TELLABS.COM