vallon@sbmiclr.Berkeley.EDU (Justin Vallon) (12/05/89)
> >>I am am attempting to collect some information on the collection of > >>internet appletalk gateways currently available. Can anyone help > >>me fill in the following table? > >> Fastpath Gatorbox Network Seagate > >> Research > >>Tops No No Yes ? > > Neither a FastPath nor Gatorbox support TOPS? TOPS has been out for a > >couple of years, almost certainly before all but the FastPath. What else > >supports TOPS then? > > I find it difficult to believe that the FastPath software does not support > Tops as Tops is packaging a Fastpath with their software at the moment. I Maybe the original poster meant Yes/No to mean that the box Implements the Tops protocol. The Gatorbox implements the NFS protocol (or whatever it is). I would find it hard to believe that an AppleTalk compatable bridge/router/ gateway be incompatable with a Mac program. Of course, I can't understand why some programs don't implement scroll bars correctly, either (ex: 4D), but that's another story. -Justin vallon@sbcs.sunysb.edu
tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) (12/05/89)
In article <Added.8ZRl=8S00UkTEeyE9y@andrew.cmu.edu> kovar%popvax@HARVARD.HARVARD.EDU (-David C. Kovar) writes: >>>I am am attempting to collect some information on the collection of >>>internet appletalk gateways currently available. Can anyone help >>>me fill in the following table? >>> Fastpath Gatorbox Network Seagate >>> Research >>>Tops No No Yes ? > > I find it difficult to believe that the FastPath software does not support >Tops as Tops is packaging a Fastpath with their software at the moment. I >don't recall the exact details but if you by Tops for the Sun and a FastPath, >you get a free copy of Tops for a Mac or PC. Seems like an odd deal if >they can't work together ... Needless to say, TOPS *does* work over a Fastpath and always has. If the Cayman gateway follows the long-established standards for Appletalk- Internet gateways, then TOPS works over that too. I really doubt that the gatorbox decided to redefine the protocol mapping, so I'm sure TOPS does work over the gatorbox. It's truly remarkable some of the strange things that get said about TOPS! -- Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com "The Diabolonian position is new to the London playgoer of today, but not to lovers of serious literature. From Prometheus to the Wagnerian Siegfried, some enemy of the gods, unterrified champion of those oppressed by them, has always towered among the heroes of the loftiest poetry." - Shaw, "On Diabolonian Ethics"