jeff@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Stearns) (01/26/89)
This is to announce the formation of a mailing list for people interested
in the Cayman GatorBox. You're invited to join.
For those who don't know, a GatorBox is a gateway between AppleShare and NFS.
It works with Macintoshes on both LocalTalk and EtherTalk, allowing them to
use files served by NFS servers.
It also emulates a Kinetics FastPath, so it works with KIP, CAP, and MAC-IP.
It costs about $3,000. There are no per-node licensing charges.
It's a fun little box.
I offer this mailing list as a place to discuss performance, features,
misfeatures, bugs, configuration, troubleshooting, competing products, and
anything else of interest to GatorBox users. I'm not affiliated with Cayman
(nor am I a competitor), so there's no possibility of any conflict of interest.
Send administrative requests to gator-boxers-request@tc.fluke.COM
Send postings to gator-boxers@tc.fluke.COM
If your mailer doesn't understand domains, try one of these paths:
microsoft!fluke!gator-boxers-request
uiucuxc!fluke!gator-boxers-request
sun!fluke!gator-boxers-request
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Jeff Stearns John Fluke Mfg. Co, Inc. (206) 356-5064
jeff@tc.fluke.COM {uw-beaver,microsoft,sun}!fluke!jeff
PS - Calling all users of the Vitalink TransLAN IV Ethernet bridge! Please
drop me a line.Ravinder.Chandhok@CS.CMU.EDU (Rob Chandhok) (01/27/89)
No offense to Jeff Stearns, but... It seems to me that in the interests of keeping the AppleTalk community all headed in the same direction, we should keep the discussion right here on info-appletalk. We (the users of this and other hardware) have a vested inerest in keeping companies like Cayman, Kinetics,and Apple moving in the same direction and building software to support our needs (which they have been doing very well lately!). Don't forget, all this AppleTalk/IP stuff started without industry support! I haven't seen complaints that there is too much traffic about the Gatorbox on info-appletalk, so why split off ? Rob Chandhok
sbm@PURDUE.EDU (01/27/89)
Now that I think about it, I have to agree with Rob Chandhok. Unless you are planning to flood the list with comments about the GatorBox, there is no more appropriate place to talk about it than an AppleTalk mailing list. Steve Munson sbm@Purdue.EDU sbm@Purdue.CSNET ----------
morgan@JESSICA.STANFORD.EDU (01/28/89)
Sign me up: morgan@jessica.stanford.edu Thanks, - RL "Bob"
wnn@DSUNX1.DSRD.ORNL.GOV (W. N. Naegeli) (01/30/89)
I agree with Rob Chandhok who pleads to keep GatorBox messages on info-apple talk. I asked to be included in the new mailing list because I don't want to miss out on GatorBox info, but there has been so little on the Gatorbox going over info-appletalk that there isn't really a problem.