Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!lll-winken!sun-barr!newstop!eastapps!hinode!geoff From: geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Re: PC-NFS gotchas (followup) Message-ID: <5516@eastapps.East.Sun.COM> Date: 15 Apr 91 14:37:29 GMT References: <2807EB31.14469@ics.uci.edu> Sender: news@East.Sun.COM Reply-To: geoff@east.sun.com (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) Distribution: comp Organization: Sun Microsystems PC-NFS Engineering Lines: 28 Quoth milne@ics.uci.edu (Alastair Milne) (in <2807EB31.14469@ics.uci.edu>): #In droms@jasper.bucknell.edu (Ralph E. Droms) writes: #>Is the network interface hardware from Sun a reasonable #>choice, or would I do better to buy the hardwrae and software #>separately? # In case you have any microchannel machines to go on your net: # I don't think Sun includes microchannel net boards in their bundle. # We waited quite a while for ours -- we needed 2 -- because it took # that long to find a vendor who could get them for a reasonable price. (1) Our telemarketing folks might not like me saying this, but I couldn't defend our board prices as being the lowest available. A lot of people want the convenience of one-stop shopping, and our price isn't too bad, but you can almost certainly get a better deal at your local store or via mail-order. (2) Alastair, check p.121 of the price list. We've always had a microchannel board on the price list: the 3Com 3C523. However, that reminds me of something: (3) The part numbers have all changed for PC-NFS 3.5, largely because we simplified things by shipping both 5.25" and 3.5" diskettes in a single package rather than having them as separate items. -- Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Microsystems. (geoff@East.Sun.COM) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Sun Microsystems PC Distributed Systems ... -- -- ... soon to be a part of SunTech (stay tuned for details) --