ospwd@emory.UUCP (Peter Day {EUCC}) (02/25/86)
One of our departments intends to put in a number of workstations. I expect them to connect the workstations together using ethernet and TCP/IP. The faculty have Macs and IBM-PCs which they would like to be able to use to communicate at high speed with the workstations, each other, the workstation server, and some laserwriters. One possibility we are considering is putting the Macs and Laserwriters on an AppleTalk net and bridging the net to the ethernet with a Seagate bridge. Presumably the Macs can then at least do Telnet and FTP to each other and to the workstations. The question is what to do about the IBM-PCs. A product called MacBridge will allow the PCs to use the AppleTalk net to print on the laserwriter and exchange files with the Macs. However, I have not seem a TCP/IP implementation for a PC that uses AppleTalk. If the IBM-PC was connected directly to the ethernet running say the MIT TCP/IP package, could it still print on the LaserWriter? Is there some way to use the workstations or servers (say Microvax II) to act as spoolers for the LaserWriters and allow any of the machines (Macs, IBM-PCs, workstations) to spool to them easily? Is there a solution if the microvax II is running microvms?