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From: eric@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Eric Fielding)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: file backups in a mixed environment
Message-ID: <7965@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 17 May 89 14:26:41 GMT
Reply-To: eric@geology.tn.cornell.edu
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Organization: Department of Geological Sciences, Cornell University
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In a recent article sinclair@aero.UUCP (William S. Sinclair) wrote:
>... To the best of my knowledge, the EXABYTE drives don't yet
>have an implementation with the DEC RISC architecture. If they did,
>we could dump the UNIX nodes with that, and use VAX/ULTRIX connect
>to NFS the VMS files over to it.

We recently got a quote from Aviv (rt 128-land, Mass.) for a Exabyte to be
connected to a DECstation 3100. I believe that it included a driver. I don't
know if they have it ready to ship yet. It was cheaper in the SCSI version 
than in the Q-bus version since it does not need a controller board.

				++Eric Fielding
eric@geology.tn.cornell.edu