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From: lane@dalcs.UUCP
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Subject: IBM-PC <-> VAX <-> MAC network?
Message-ID: <2047@dalcs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 2-Nov-86 15:04:07 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov  2 15:04:07 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 3-Nov-86 02:06:35 EST
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Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada
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Our company (and those who work for it) has/have a number of PC-clones,
a few Mac's, and assorted others (Apple //c and Apple ///'s).  There is
talk of getting a uVAX or similar mini.  Question... Is there a local-
area-network product that will allow all of these machines (especially
the PC's and Mac's) to be connected in some reasonable fashion, preferrably
using the VAX as a file server?  

As something of a neophyte in networking I'm not really sure what I mean 
by "reasonable fashion".  For instance, how does one... or does one... go 
about dealing with the (presumably) different data structures used by typical 
PC and Mac applications.

Any ideas, net?

Thanks.

-- 
John Wright
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