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Subject: INFO NEEDED - Kinetics Fastpath Box
Message-ID: <655@runx.OZ>
Date: Tue, 10-Feb-87 23:33:31 EST
Article-I.D.: runx.655
Posted: Tue Feb 10 23:33:31 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Feb-87 05:43:19 EST
Organization: RUNX Un*x Timeshare.  Sydney, Australia.
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[ The following request for information is being posted on behalf of a 
member of our club. ]

Here is CSIRO in Sydney we are proposing to test out a KENETICS Fastpath
box to connect an AppleTalk system through ethernet to a VAX system
running VMS.

I gather that both Kenetics and another third party developer (Alice) 
provide software to support such protocol conversion however
information is sketchy in Australia about the abailities of
such an interconnect.

Could people with some experience with such systems give me some 
ideas of its capabilities.

For example can the Kinetics system act as a proper file server able
to share VAX files with the Appletalk system or can one only up-load
and down-load files from the VAX system to AppleTalk.

Our decision to acquire the new AppleFile server/Spooler system using
a dedicated Mac will depend on the Kinetics system and its capabilities.

I WOULD APPRECIATE ANY HELP ANYONE CAN PROVIDE ON THIS QUESTION THAT 
MUST BE OF INTEREST TO MANY PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS.

Many thanks.

Ray Haynes, CSIRO Division of Radiophsyics.

[ PLEASE SEND ALL EMAIL TO THE ADRESS GIVEN BELOW ! ]

Raymond Haynes, CSIRO Division of Radiophysics,
Mail: P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW, 2121, Australia
ACSNET:  ray@rpepping.oz
Internet: ray%rpepping.oz@Seismo.CSS.GOV
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Telephone: Aust.(02) 868 0222
Telex:     AA26230 ASTRO