Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!oliveb!sun!mongoose!tooch
From: tooch%mongoose@Sun.COM (Michael J. Tuciarone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac Ethernet products?
Message-ID: <19772@sun.uucp>
Date: Wed, 27-May-87 13:00:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: sun.19772
Posted: Wed May 27 13:00:24 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 30-May-87 01:38:22 EDT
References: <890@oakhill.UUCP>
Sender: news@sun.uucp
Reply-To: tooch@sun.UUCP (Michael J. Tuciarone)
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View
Lines: 18
Keywords: Apple Macintosh Ethernet TCP/IP Sun
Summary: To Unix or not to Unix, that is the question.

If you want to hook your Mac up to Ethernet there are two ways to go:

	o as has been mentioned, a Mac II running A/UX and equipped
	  with an Ethernet card becomes a fairly standard Unix
	  workstation: NFS, r{login,sh,cp,...}, Yellow Pages &c.

	o alternatively, you could use an AppleTalk<->Ethernet
	  bridge box (Kinetics FastPath or some such) and networking
	  software (TOPS from Centram, for instance). The files
	  are transparently available on the two systems. The
	  advantage to this is that it works with any Mac, and
	  the Mac doesn't have to run Unix. I've seen a demo
	  involving Kinetics, TOPS, a Mac+, and a Sun-3/52; it 
	  seemed to work.

--Mike Tuciarone
  Sun Microsystems
  ...sun!tooch | tooch@sun.COM