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From: tohaapanen@watrose.UUCP (Tom Haapanen)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Mac network question
Message-ID: <7777@watrose.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 26-Jan-86 23:18:47 EST
Article-I.D.: watrose.7777
Posted: Sun Jan 26 23:18:47 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 27-Jan-86 02:58:31 EST
References: <465@ssc-bee.UUCP>
Reply-To: tohaapanen@watrose.UUCP (Tom Haapanen)
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In article <465@ssc-bee.UUCP> bmac1@ssc-bee.UUCP (Keith Pratt) writes:
>
>I am looking for somebody with a little more experience than I have to
>answer questions about networking Mac's together.  We are going to
>receive in the near future 10 Mac's, 5 Imagewriters, and 1
>LaserWriter.
>
>I understand that I can use Appletalk to network the Mac's in order to
>share the LaserWriter.  Is there a better network than Appletalk to do
>this?

I have a question myself, too: with the advent of the Mac+, there is
real potential here for BUSINESS APPLICATIONS.  However, can somebody
tell me whether Appletalk allows file sharing on a SCSI drive (need a
20M - 30M drive for the application I have in mind)?  If so, does it
allow file locking (this would be ok) or record locking (this would be
REALLY nice).  We're talking shared databases here --- can the
Mac+/Appletalk/SCSI combination handle this?  A Mac+ would be a lot
more attractive from a user perspective than an ASCII terminal...

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