whna@ciba-geigy.ch (Heinz Naef) (07/16/90)
Hello creative system integrators, This crazy question may have been asked before, but ... I'm wondering if a so-called industry-standard personal computer could be configured so that it acts as a 'shoebox' for a diskless Sun workstation. The question came up because two collegues and I own PC's for home usage, equipped with a large (unfortunately MFM) harddisk (130MB) and a Sun- compatible streamer tape drive. We are thinking about buying a real workstation but do not want to throw away what we have now. One could imagine a package containing a SCSI host adapter for the PC bus and a special DOS device driver or PC-bootable mini-operating system which could emulate the 'intelligence' of the 'shoebox'. Does anyone know about such a beast; or is it really a bad idea? Thanks in advance for any comments (consider the limited bandwith of the News system). This question has nothing to do with any design ideas my employer may have. Heinz Naef, CIBA-GEIGY AG, R-1045.3.37, P.O.Box, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland E-mail: whna@ciba-geigy.ch - Phone: +41 61 697 2675 - Fax: +41 61 697 3288