digi@megalon.UUCP (Klaus Altenburg) (03/24/88)
In article <880321184301.105983@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA> Houde@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA writes: >Sorry, but I never specified my address. I wanted to know whether or not I >could use a standard Unix box as a server for Sun workstations. Please direct >any responses to Houde at PCO-MULTICS.ARPA. My company is also interrested in using workstations (like sun's) for CASE. Here in Germany a reasonable sun-server costs about 35.000 - 40.000 DM. So here some questions about CASE, workstations, NFS, RFS and graphic environments on un*x : - Is it right, that we need only a unix-machine with a working NFS to run diskless sun-workstations ? - Are the sun's bootable via the nfs of a non-sun-server ? - What about workstations based on RFS ? - is there software to use 386-based systems as workstations for CASE ? Thanx in advance ------- Klaus Altenburg, (Keywords: 'C', UN*X) W.-Germany, 4100 Duisburg 46, An den Siffen 12, +49-2151-404087 Email: digi@megalon.{UUCP,?DE?}; Fido 2:507/777
benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel) (03/26/88)
In article <208@megalon.UUCP>, digi@megalon.UUCP (Klaus Altenburg) writes: > My company is also interrested in using workstations (like sun's) for CASE. > Here in Germany a reasonable sun-server costs about 35.000 - 40.000 DM. Usually it's the reverse. > > - Is it right, that we need only a unix-machine with a working > NFS to run diskless sun-workstations ? I believe their are now versions of NFS that allow diskless Sun's to boot off of Vaxes and other machines. I could be wrong...it might still be pending release. Naturally diskless Suns can boot off of low-end workstations like the Sun 3/60 (it's slower). > - is there software to use 386-based systems as workstations for CASE ? When Sun's 386 machine (see InfoWorld and ComputerWorld) comes out the answer is yes. Look at Sun's NSE package (it works with CADRE, Interleaf etc)