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From: bob@osu-eddie.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Making a Mac talk SCSI to a Sun
Message-ID: <3091@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Feb-87 11:21:13 EST
Article-I.D.: osu-eddi.3091
Posted: Wed Feb 11 11:21:13 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Feb-87 06:55:36 EST
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Reply-To: bob@osu-eddie.UUCP (Bob Sutterfield)
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Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science
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Keywords: SCSI IP
Summary: Why not IP?
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In article <2594@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:

> (...) It would be kind of nice if we could get the Suns and the Macs
>talking to each other in some faster way than running xmodem at 9600
>baud.

How about using a Kinetics FastPath box as an Appletalk-to-Ethernet
gateway, and get some software that lets you do TCP/IP things (Telnet,
FTP, the works) on the Mac?  Kinetics can point you to some (for
money), as can mod.protocols.appletalk (for free).  That way one
hardware investment serves your whole network.

> (...) How hard would it be to write some software to make the Sun
>emulate a SCSI disk for the Mac?  Of course we wouldn't waste a whole
>Sun as a Mac disk server, (...)

How about making the Sun NFS server also an AFP server for the Mac,
like Apple's new Mac-based file server?  Somebody's bound to do it
very soon...
-- 
 Bob Sutterfield, Department of Computer and Information Science
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