[181] in Information Retrieval
Appletalk for sharing DOS CD-ROMs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (gyoung@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Fri Jul 9 16:18:43 1993
From: gyoung@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: dospartners@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: elibdev@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 93 16:17:51 EDT
Does anyone have any experience with running Appletalk over ethernet
with DOS machines out there?
In the Libraries we want to share CD-ROMs over MITNet. There are a
number of solutions for doing this but they generally use IPX or NetBios
protocols that are not routed over the backbone. We haven't found any
TCP/IP solutions to this that work decently and we were wondering if
Appletalk might be an alternative. If anyone has a number of Farrallon
Computing that I could call to talk them about it I'd appreciate it. We
can't really use Macs since virtually all of the the CD-ROM software is
DOS based. I know this is a long shot.
-- Grant Young, Asst. Head
MIT Libraries -- Systems Office
phone: x3-0757
"Nothing fancy, just so it works good."
