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From: benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Sun servers
Message-ID: <1802@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 26 Mar 88 09:34:38 GMT
References: <880321184301.105983@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA> <208@megalon.UUCP>
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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In article <208@megalon.UUCP>, digi@megalon.UUCP (Klaus Altenburg) writes:
> My company is also interrested in using workstations (like sun's) for CASE.
> Here in Germany a reasonable sun-server costs about 35.000 - 40.000 DM.
Usually it's the reverse.
> 
> 	- Is it right, that we need only a unix-machine with a working
> 	  NFS to run diskless sun-workstations ?
I believe their are now versions of NFS that allow diskless Sun's to boot
off of Vaxes and other machines. I could be wrong...it might still be
pending release.  Naturally diskless Suns can boot off of low-end
workstations like the Sun 3/60 (it's slower).  

> 	- is there software to use 386-based systems as workstations for CASE ?
When Sun's 386 machine (see InfoWorld and ComputerWorld) comes out the answer
is yes.  Look at Sun's NSE package (it works with CADRE, Interleaf etc)