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From: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Ethernet (was Re: Amiga: Which replacment OS?)
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Date: Tue, 2-Jun-87 01:36:32 EDT
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In article <1329@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes:
<mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer) wrote:
<>Chuck, would you like to tell us how hard it is to put an Amiga on an
<>ethernet with Suns?
<
<The context of the above quote implied that it was a real bitch to do.
<We have an Amiga NFS'ed to a Sun 3/280 and haven't had any problems
<setting it up or maintaining it.  This is with the Ameristar package.

Whoops! I didn't think I implied that it was a bitch. I sure didn't
mean to if I did.

I thought I said that it should be no harder than running mixed Suns
on the same ethernet: i.e., that the hardest thing this adds is making
sure that the NFS clients get the binaries they want. Is that about
right, Bob?

On the other hand, at one point we asked Sun for something, and they
effectively tolds us "See Figure 1." This resulted in us running Sun
3.2 binaries on 3.0 clients. That reference may have made it seem like
it was a bitch. Running out-of-version binaries is *not* a good thing
to do, and easy to avoid so long as you don't ask Sun to fix
something.

	<mike
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