claman@csc.mckinsey.com (Larry Claman) (11/15/90)
In other messages in this newsgroup I have seen reference to using AT&T's Starlan product as a Macintosh server. When I called AT&T a few months back they told me that Starlan didn't support Macs. Has this changed? I would be very interested in knowing if I can now use Starlan as a Mac server. -Larry Claman claman@csc.mckinsey.com Cambridge Systems Center McKinsey & Co.
jbreeden@netcom.UUCP (John Breeden) (11/16/90)
In article <1990Nov14.230803.13761@mck-csc.mckinsey.com> claman@csc.mckinsey.com (Larry Claman) writes: >In other messages in this newsgroup I have seen reference to using >AT&T's Starlan product as a Macintosh server. When I called AT&T a few >months back they told me that Starlan didn't support Macs. > >Has this changed? I would be very interested in knowing if I can >now use Starlan as a Mac server. > > -Larry Claman claman@csc.mckinsey.com > Cambridge Systems Center > McKinsey & Co. -- John Robert Breeden, netcom!jbreeden@apple.com, apple!netcom!jbreeden, ATTMAIL:!jbreeden ------------------------------------------------------------------- "The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from. If you don't like any of them, you just wait for next year's model."
cmilono@netcom.UUCP (Carlo Milono) (11/16/90)
It's true that AT&T's StarGROUP LAN Manager Server 3.4 has an add-on module to support Apple(r) File Protocols. At Interop '90, they showed the sharing of Microsoft's Excel between a Mac, DOS, OS/2, and IBM LAN Server OS/2 clients. Any of those clients could print on the Apple PostScript printers. Here are the specifications: i386/i486 Server 8MB RAM Minimum 135MB Hard Disk Minimum StarLAN 10 Ethernet Card (10BASET) Apple Client Mac Plus, SE, SE30, II System Software 6.0.3 or higher AppleShare Client 2.0 or higher LaserWriter Driver 5.2 LaserPrep 5.2 Apple Talk Phase II driver And of course, UNIX 4.02 or higher on the Server with StarGROUP LAN MAN 3.4, and the StarGROUP Server for Macintosh. There is also another add-on pack that allows NetBEUI support...*and* (I happen to like this feature:) you can still have access to UNIX from the DOS side by using the included Kermit or an INT 14 terminal emulator. You can even add-on serial ports to the server and support dumb-terminals for UNIX programs (there is a give-away deal going on for a free copy of LOTUS 123...I saw it in the WSJ!) -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Carlo Milono: netcom!cmilono@apple.com or apple!netcom!cmilono | |"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, | |that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." - Jonathan Swift | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+