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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 6300 networking
Message-ID: <1991Feb08.201424.29672@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 8 Feb 91 20:14:24 GMT
References: <15266@leadsv.UUCP> <1991Feb3.035942.23719@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <1991Feb7.024608.12819@iguana.uucp>
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In article <1991Feb7.024608.12819@iguana.uucp> merce@iguana.uucp (Jim Mercer) writes:

>we have a classroom full of single floppy 6300's which used to connect to a
>3B2 using starlan 1 NIC's and starlan software.

>we dropped a starlan 1 NIC into a Novell server, plugged it into the hub,
>rebooted the 6300's with a novell style boot disk and whamo, instant novell
>network.

Did you gain something from this as compared to the netbios/3B2 server in
the way of software compatibility, extra functionality, speed, or size of
the client code?  Did you compare Novell to the '386 version of the unix
starlan server?

Just curious.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us