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From: tony@cortex.psych.nyu.edu (Tony Movshon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: 386i as a server for 3/50s?
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Date: 21 Jan 89 04:09:21 GMT
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A colleague of mine wants to use a 386i with a big SCSI disk as a file
server for a few diskless 3/50s. Sun tells him this can't be done, but no
one he has spoken to has given him a cogent reason. I thought under SunOS
4.x that diskless machines use NFS to boot, and surely the 386i supports
full NFS. So, is this a fake problem, a bug likely to be fixed some time,
or some fundamental limit on performance in mixed-architecture systems?

	Tony Movshon

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