jay@nova.laic.uucp (Jay Weber) (11/03/89)
Some advice, please: how should I connect 2-4 IBM-compatible 8088s and 80286s running DOS 4.0, so that they can share files and devices in a reasonably transparent way? I heard of a product called "Grapevine", a low-cost solution that connects the machines over their serial ports, but I have the following questions: 1) how fast is remote access, relative to local access? 2) what is the remote access convention, and how transparent is it? 3) any file/device locking, or how are read/write write/write conflicts resolved? 4) can a host be responding to a remote access and run an application at the same time (timeslicing?) 5) what other options exist, and what are their costs/benefits? any information would be appreciated -- thanks Jay Weber jay@icsi.berkeley.edu ..!ucbvax!icsi!jay ..!decwrl!pyramid!leadsv!laic!jay