kim@emory.UUCP (Kim Wallen {Psychology}) (10/07/85)
Our department is thinking of setting up a LAN using Starlan.
We recently replaced our univiersity phone system and ended up with
our building completely wired in duplicate with twisted pair. We
would like to use the LAN for shared file access and electronic mail
and don't anticipate that STARLAN's 1Mbit speed will be a drawback.
Our main concern is that we want to be able to mix UNIX and MS-DOS
machines. It looks as if both the PC-7300 (3B1?) with the Alloy
Computer MS-DOS board and the PC-6300-plus might allow us to do this.
Is it true that the 6300 cannot hook directly into a LAN running
7300's and 3B2's running UNIX? Would the PC-6300-plus be able to
serve as a gateway between an MS-DOS STARLAN network and a UNIX
STARLAN network. All of ATT's documentation seems to suggest that
the MS-DOS network runs separately from the UNIX network. We currently
have mostly MS-DOS machines, but want to migrate into a UNIX environment.
We want the system's file server to be a UNIX machine, but we don't want
to have to replace all of our current MS-DOS machines.
Are there any STARLAN users our there that could tell me somehting
about its performance. How easy is the network software to use?
Would a PC-7300 with the new 35msec winchester make a decent temporary
file server?
Thanks in adavance for any help.
Kim Wallen
Psychology Department
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
(404) 727-4125
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