Gavin_Eadie@UMICH-MTS.MAILNET (03/16/86)
AppleTalkers ... Some things going on at the Computing Center at the University of Michigan: EFS :: Translated completely from SUMacC to Aztec C. Undergoing testing with improved RS232 serial communications to unix and IBM host software. We'll send the results of this work back to Croft when we're satisfied we've zapped the worst of the badness we introduced in the translation. Kinetics :: As we move to a new office suite in the next two weeks we'll bring up a Fastpath on the Center's Ethernet. The discussions here have been interesting, our first attempts to telnet to the vax/unix system were not successful but we'll try again after the move. Centram :: We hope to be testing Centram's TOPS too. One of the hopes is that we can use an AST-4000 as a file service for all the Macs and some of the PCs too. Perfomance will be interesting to monitor. I mention all this not because it's wild or way out, but to keep people informed in case of mutual interests. INFO-APPLEBUS has warmed up a lot in the last few weeks and this minor contribution is a way to give as well as receive off the net. ... Gavin