Will@cup.portal.com (Will E Estes) (02/09/90)
Can someone give me a cost breakdown of what it takes to get into Ethernet? I have four DOS and OS/2 workstations that I need to put on Ethernet. I figure about $500 per station for the hardware. What else, at minimum, do I need to get this all to work to the point where we can do file transfers, use a server, and use network applications that make use of named pipes and other application to application level protocols? And how much do each of the additional components cost? Cost is a real issue here, so I'm a little scared about any approach that would require me to buy a particular vendor's server at some outrageous markup. Thanks, Will (sun!portal!cup.portal.com!Will)
Will@cup.portal.com (Will E Estes) (02/12/90)
I should also add that I'm interested in an approach that does not require a dedicated server. Ideally we would run the server as another process under OS/2. Thanks, Will (sun!portal!cup.portal.com!Will)