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From: dennisg@pwcs.StPaul.GOV (Dennis Grittner)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Appletalk/tcp-ip interface ?
Message-ID: <901@pwcs.StPaul.GOV>
Date: Thu, 4-Jun-87 16:23:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: pwcs.901
Posted: Thu Jun  4 16:23:02 1987
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Reply-To: dennisg@pwcs.StPaul.GOV (Dennis Grittner)
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In article <287@qtc.UUCP> ed@qtc.UUCP (Ed Lisle) writes:
>Need info on possible products/vendors that will allow a Mac with
>a laserwriter+ on an appletalk network to connect to a ethernet
>(tcp-ip) network.
The Kinetics Fastpath is the box that's do it. Somebody else may
be making them - but I haven't heard of them. Software might
include a lot of different things including MacIP from Stanford.
>I have a Vax/Vms host networked with Excelan (tcp-ip) ethernet to
>a Sequent Balance (Unix) host.  I would like to purchase a Mac
>and do things such as file xfer/terminal emulation from the mac
>to any hosts on the net (ala ftp/telnet),  also remote file
>serving would be great.
TOPS from Centram would be the file server product. I thought
that Sun or 3COM was buying them oe something ??? TOPS can
include Unix to Mac ( and , yes PC ) fileserving was well as PC
to Mac and vice versa.
>From my Vms and Unix host, I would like to send print jobs to the
>Laserwiter+ thru the appletalk.  I do not want to mess with cable
>swapping or physical button pushing.
While it oughta be possible, I don't know of any software to
enable the VMS or Unix host to spool across ethernet to appletalk
and print ( if there is will someone please let me know too - I
could really use this! ). 

There are other software packages like CAP ( I think ) from CMU (
?? ) and others. I've heard that Ohio State has some Macs being
served via a Pyramid and they are probably pretty up on the
software and hardware as well as other Universities.
>I understand there are a few ethernet to appletalk boxes out there.
I don't think there are but I'm not really sure. Kinetics is at :
P.O. Box 3341
Walnut Creek, California 94598
(415) 947-0998

How about it out there what else is there ( hardware?, software?
) and how good is it. I think the kinetics box works pretty good
but I haven't tried a lot of different software on it here, just
MacIP.

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