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From: tmangan@infinet.UUCP (Tim Mangan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM-PC <-> VAX <-> MAC network?
Message-ID: <504@infinet.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Nov-86 18:11:35 EST
Article-I.D.: infinet.504
Posted: Wed Nov 12 18:11:35 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 13-Nov-86 07:36:44 EST
References: <2047@dalcs.UUCP> <727@chinet.UUCP>
Reply-To: tmangan@infinet.UUCP (Tim Mangan)
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc
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Organization: Infinet Inc., Andover, MA
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Summary: We have one

In article <727@chinet.UUCP> wmf@chinet.UUCP (William M. Fischer) writes:
>In article <2047@dalcs.UUCP> lane@dalcs.UUCP writes:
>>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
>
>I think that KERMIT may hold at least a partial solution to your problem.
>

We currently have a running 'network' of machines which include several
UN*X machines, PC's, HP9000's, and a Mac.  The Unix machines (Vax 750, uVAX, 
SUN 3) are ethernetted together.  Other Vaxs, uVaxs (VMS) talk via Kermit to
various UN*X machines.  The Mac talks Kermit to the SUN (mostly to use the
lasar-writer).  The PC/AT on the other hand uses PC-NFS to talk to the SUN
(and share it's very large disk!!!!!).

Kermit is cheap. WMF told you how to get it, and all you need for hardware is
a RS232 line (perhaps with some pin or sex change depending on the specific
connection).  You are limited to 9.6kb.  Kermit can be found for almost any OS.

PC-NFS is expensive.  It cost us about $900 (I think) for hw & sw.  It is fast. 
I havn't checked out actual throughput, but we are talking about megabyte-land
here.  In addition to file transfer, you get remote disk access (what the PC
thinks is it's D disk is really on your SUN), telnet (effectivly remote login
in one direction only--DOS isn't a multi user OS yet!), and remote printer
support.  It requires SUN on the other end, and DOS on the PC.  
It isn't available, and I havn't heard of anyone offering it for a Mac or Apple
(yet).  We love this product, if only it would work when DOS is loaded in as
a QNX task (sigh, some people want everything)!  Contact Sun MicroSystems for 
more info.

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