tony@killer.UUCP (Tony Holden) (12/03/87)
I've just been handed a remote site of 3 PeeCees all tied into a Unix system over the phone lines. All are printing locally on the PeeCee, thus 3 printers. I saw an ad in (ugh!) Inmac for a thing called Easy Net or Quick Net. It uses RS-232 and will run at 115k bps!!! Is this stuff worth looking at or is it junk (115k bps). I need a cheap low performance net to share a printer and maybe 1 hard disk for local MS-DOS stuff. HELP! Tony Holden ihnp4!killer!tony
berger@clio.UUCP (12/06/87)
Consider the "invisible network" by Invisible Software. It's
relatively cheap, reliable, and powerful. Since it uses the IBM
or Novell network drivers (that's the expensive part), it is
a robust system - you can remote-boot from another machine, share
printers, etc. The cost per microcomputer is about $ 250.
Mike Berger
Center for Advanced Study
University of Illinois
berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu
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