dinah@karazm.math.uh.edu (Dinah McNutt) (11/30/90)
I am interested in information on different ways to connect MACs, PCs (386
and 486 types), and UNIX systems. Functionality requirements include mail,
remote login, file sharing, file transfer, printer sharing, and net news.
I am particularly interested in software that provides all the above plus
can handle PC-PC communications well. Also, some of the systems I am dealing
with are already on a Novell or Appletalk network. (Some of the PCs and MACs
are currently standalone as well.)
I would also like information on the following:
Beam and Whiteside's PC-NFS product
Intercom's Netnews and TN3270 products
MacPathway from The Wollongong Group
Star*9
and anything else that might be available.
Thanks,
Dinah
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Dinah McNutt Senior Staff Scientist
Technology Transfer Associates Houston, Texas
internet: dinah@bcm.tmc.edu uucp: {rutgers,mailrus}!bcm!dinahkdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) (12/04/90)
In article <1990Nov30.130305.20835@lavaca.uh.edu>, dinah@karazm.math.uh.edu (Dinah McNutt) writes: > Intercom's Netnews and TN3270 products That's InterCon. Not Intercom, sorry, but everyone I talk to over the phone makes the same mistake. :-) Sigh. Anyway, you might want to look at the two NFS clients that just came out for the Mac. Wollongong has one and InterCon has one. On the PC side of things InterCon has a PC product that runs over AppleTalk Cards on the PC. You also might want to consider getting information from FTP Software (info@ftp.com I think) about their PC products, they have NFS for the PC as well. Sun also, of course, has a PC product called PC-NFS, has a limited telnet and NFS, but no mail, etc.. There is a lot more to your question that what I answered, but I am sure that others will be more than helpful in filling out what I missed. Hope this helps. -- Kurt Baumann InterCon Systems Corporation 703.709.9890 Creators of fine TCP/IP products 703.709.9896 FAX for the Macintosh.
geoff@bodleian.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) (12/04/90)
Quoth kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) (in <275A8FE8.3C5F@intercon.com>): #Sun also, of course, has a PC product called PC-NFS, has a limited #telnet and NFS, but no mail, etc.. Hmmm... Kurt, check your facts. Just because we unbundled email and backup doesn't mean we don't offer these capabilities. Shall I send you some data sheets? :-) Geoff -- Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Microsystems. (geoff@East.Sun.COM) -- *** "Now is no time to speculate or hypothecate, but rather a time *** *** for action, or at least not a time to rule it out, though not *** *** necessarily a time to rule it in, either." - George Bush ***
kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) (12/04/90)
In article <3503@jaytee.East.Sun.COM>, geoff@bodleian.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) writes: > Quoth kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) (in <275A8FE8.3C5F@intercon.com>): > #Sun also, of course, has a PC product called PC-NFS, has a limited > #telnet and NFS, but no mail, etc.. > > Hmmm... Kurt, check your facts. Just because we unbundled email and > backup doesn't mean we don't offer these capabilities. Shall I send > you some data sheets? :-) > > Geoff Oopps, I stand corrected. I forgot about reading about the release of mail by SUN for the PC as well. Sorry about that. And yes, please send me a data sheet. (If you feel real generous send me a copy of the software so we can test it against ours :-)) Anyway, thanks for clearing that up. -- Kurt Baumann InterCon Systems Corporation 703.709.9890 Creators of fine TCP/IP products 703.709.9896 FAX for the Macintosh.
cec@cup.portal.com (Cerafin E Castillo) (12/05/90)
If you are looking for Wide Area Networking using TCP/IP (ie SLIP/CSLIP/PPP),
check out the TELEBIT NetBlazer. With InterCon and FTP Software Inc.
applications, you could connect your UNIX/MAC/DOS systems in no time!
E-mail me for more details and a complete package. (Sorry, for the
salesy plug, but I do have all this stuff...).
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===============================================================================roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) (12/07/90)
kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) writes: > That's InterCon. Not Intercom, sorry, but everyone I talk to over the phone > makes the same mistake. :-) Sigh. I don't remember who it was, but somebody once suggested that good code should meet the telephone test -- you should be able to read your program to somebody over the phone and have them understand it. Perhaps company names should be held to the same standard? -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy "Arcane? Did you say arcane? It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"